Year Book
Of The
General Conference
Of The
Mennonite Church of North America
1945
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Auxiliary Organizations
All-Mennonite Committee
Women’s Missionary Societies
Young People’s Union
Boards
Committees
Missionaries
Foreign
Home
Officers
Officers of District Conferences ....
HISTORICAL ARTICLES
Bergthal Mennonite Church | _......................... 7
Brotherhood of the Eastern Dist. ............... 2
Deer Creek Menn. Church ............... goaesecanest 10
First Menn. Church, Hillsboro
Mennoville Menn. Church .............
IN MEMORIAM
Albrecht, Franz ......
Baergen, Jacob G. .
Foulke,’ Linford
Froese, Abraham W. ..
Mouttet, Paul
Musselman, (©: His: .2.:6.6sc0.6:4.s5ccsesc8ssbecgsecsedcles ts 24
Ratzlaff, Adam
Roemer; Fs Do xsce-c¢ scccc eden case tect tates etceege Secs 25
Sister Frieda __.
MINISTERS OF THE GENERAL
CONFERENCE
Canadian Conference
Eastern District
of Contents
Mexico ............
Middle District _.....
Northern District
District ......
Western District
Pacific
REPORTS
Boards and Committees
Education
Foreign Missions
Home Missions
Publication
Unity Committee .c2ccc.c..2e: sceacgeesiieeaiseoe 2
Conference President
Hospitals
Schools
Bethel
Bluffton
Freeman
Young People’s Union
STATISTICS
Board Budgets .
Church Paper Plan
District
Eastern
Middle
Northern
Pacific
Western
Foreign Missions
Special Days
Workers Ordained
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5lst Year
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YEAR BOOK 1945
of the
General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America
Issued by the
MENNONITE PUBLICATION OFFICE
Newton, Kansas
Special Days For 1945
New Year’s Day
* Week of Prayer
Race Relations Day
* Ash Wednesday Beginning of Lent __ Feb.
World Day of Prayer
Day of Prayer for Students
Brotherhood Day
Stewardship Day
‘- Passion Sunday
Palm Sunday
‘iGood Friday
Easter Sunday
Rural Life Sunday
Ascension Day
Christian Family Week
Festival of the Christian Home
(formerly called Mother’s Day)
Penecost (Whitsunday)
Memorial Day
Children’s Sunday
Nature Sunday
Independence Day
Labor Sunday
Religious Education Week
World Temperance Day
Armistice Day
Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Sunday
Christmas Day
New Year’s Eve __________- ere see Dec.
In Times of Stress
Another year of grace has passed. You who
read these lines will agree that all of us—
Christians and non-Christians alike—are liv-
ing in a time of unusual stress.
I will not say, as is frequently so glibly
affirmed, that the world has never known any-
thing like it and never again will be the same.
The ‘world’ is altogether too indefinite a
concept thus to be lumped off in one breath.
All that one might properly say would be
that never ‘before to his personal knowledge
had there been such universal stress, tension,
and suffering.
We tend to circumscribe our own little world
. in terms of family, church, nation, or race.
“ But when thus we unduly exalt ourselves at
the expense of others the result invariably is
strain, violence or even war and all that im-
plies, as we see and deplore it today. This,
however, need not be so. It was God who “set
man in families”, Ps. 68:6. And it was He of
_ whom the whole family in heaven and earth is
named, Eph. 3:15. And it was Jesus Christ who
established His church of which He is the
Head, Col. 1:18; and His “whosoever will”,
Rev. 22:17, knows no national or racial bounds.
“Was there ever kinder shepherd
Half so gentle, half so sweet
As the Savior Who would have us
Come and gather ’round His feet?”
It is not for me, at the close of the year,
here to report on the work that our General
Conference boards and committees have done.
That belongs to them.
But on their behalf and the cause of Christ
I do desire, at the beginning of the new year,
most earnestly to stress and plead the urgent
need in these trying times of the undivided
and cheerful support of every loyal member
who loves the Lord and His appearing. Failing
those whom we elect to office in that support,
we defeat ourselves and injure the Divine
cause entrusted to us.
The fact that our number is small does
not exempt us from the admonition of Jesus
that ‘a house divided against itself cannot
stand.’ The more’s the reason we should spend
and be spent at the spiritual task entrusted to
our Mennonite church. Here, too, let us apply
the test of simple faith.
Let us pray for Divine forgiveness for our
sins of omission and commission, and mend
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our wayward ways.
Let us—as ministers—study to show oursel-
ves approved of God, workmen that need not
be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth
II Tim. 3:15.
Let us claim God’s promise: “Bring ye all
the tithes (in time, in talents, in devotion, and
in coin) into the storehouse, that there may
be meat in mine house, and prove me now
herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not
open you the windows of heaven, and pour you
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out a blessing, that there shall not be room
enough to receive it. Mal. 3:10.
And if bonds and afflictions should be
awaiting us, God grant that we may have the
fortitude and grace to say with Paul: “But *
none of these things move me, neither count
I my life dear unto myself, so that I mighte
finish my course with joy, and the ministry,
which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to
testify the gospel of the grace of God,” Acts
20:24. —C. E. Krehbiel, Conference President
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Brotherhood of the Eastern District Conference
By Norman K. Berky
It has not been easy to gather this material
together. It may not be altogether accurate in
some things. Some items of information were
not all accomplishments, as they were not all
completed; some barely reached beyond the
discussion stage; other things that the Brother-
hood made possible are not mentioned in the
minutes, nor indeed can all be known in the
various details of various individual lives. We
shall mention only a few of the charter mem-
bers by name. We hope you will pardon any
unintentional errors that may have been made.
This has been a larger job than I counted
on when I said “yes” to your president, Brother
Ely Fretz. If tires, gas, and increasing confus-
ions in our business lives had not given me a
few weeks release from work, I could not have
done what I promised you to do.
The plan of approach to the subject is:
. Introduction and Origin.
. Accomplishments in Material Support.
. Accomplishments in Fellowship.
. Accomplishments in the Deepening of
Spiritual Lives.
5. Conclusions.
1. Origin
On September 22, 1917, at the Eastern Dis-
trict Sunday School Convention held at Per-
kasie, an address was delivered by Maxwell
H. Kratz. Acting upon some suggestions which
he made, the resolutions committee recom-
mended that a “committee of three devise
ways and means of bringing into existence a
movement of laymen for service.” This com-
mittee was to cooperate with three lay mem-
bers of the Home Mission Board. A committee
was appointed and issued a call for the first
meeting on July 22, 1918. This call in the
form of a letter stated the purpose, namely,
“to form an organization of the laymen of our
church for the purpose of getting our men
better acquainted with each other, keeping them
more keenly interested in various phases of the
work of our church, fostering among them a
keener and stronger loyalty to its principles,
and to have them stand more closely together
in Christian service.” A meeting was held in
the Souderton Mennonite Church on Sunday
afternoon, August 11, 1918, and organization
effected.
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2. Material Support
September 1, 1919, the Brotherhood was in- b
vited to assume the collection of a fund of
$60,000 during the following three years for*
relief, reconstruction, missions, and education;
it would mean hard work organizing for the
campaign and would open the Brotherhood to
criticisms of all kinds. A campaign committee
was appointed to visit each church to present
the cause. Literature, bulletins, pledge cards,
and record cards were prepared and distributed *
to each church. September 6, one year later, it
reported that $50,000 had been subscribed to
the fund which was known as the Thanksgiving
Fund.
Cash collected was:
$15,308.31
26,634.04
37,467.24
At the end of three years in September, 1922,
the fund was incomplete and was ordered con-
tinued another year. September 29, 1923, the
total amount of cash collected for the fund was
$41,663.99.
To illustrate how some of the money was
used for relief; an emergency case arose. An
urgent appeal for $1000 came from the Menno-
nite Church at Grefeld Germany. Many early
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Mennonite settlers had come from this church.
$1000 was sent by Conference.
While this collecting of the Thanksgiving
Fund was going on, a call came for the collec-
, tion of clothing and supplies for Southern Rus-
sia. The Eastern District Conference requested
the Brotherhood to take charge of the work.
This was done, and the articles gathered were
shipped through the Mennonite Central Com-
mittee. On September 4, 1922, it was reported
that the clothing drive had resulted in twenty-
,. three bales of clothing and $100 cash to pur-
chase additional supplies.
September 29, 1923, we read that Conference
ordered that no further efforts be made to
complete the Thanksgiving Fund, that various
needs of the churches demanded a budget of
$10,000, of which 20 per cent was to be for the
_ Eastern District Conference, 30 per cent for
our educational institutions, and 50 per cent
's., for the Home for the Aged. This new fund was
to be called the Forward Movement Fund, and
the Brotherhood was requested to assume the
collection of it. However, because of the criti-
cism that the Brotherhood was only a money-
raising organization it was decided to ask Con-
ference to raise the money through its own
organisation with the Brotherhood helping in
the detail work under Conference direction.
October 27, 1924, action was taken to raise
$500 yearly for three years to pay for books
of Mennonite. History in the Pennypacker col-
lection in the library at Perkiomen Seminary,
and otherwise further the establishing of a nu-
cleus for gathering books of Mennonite His-
tory. Afterward, we believe, this became $100
and was paid for several years and later put
into Conference Budget until fully paid.
September 26, 1925, the Brotherhood assisted
in the drive for the Eastern District Conference
budget of $4,300.00. This assistance was given
Conference for several years thereafter. The
Brotherhood had a large part in establishing
» the budget method of financing as at present
used by Conference. This method has also been
adopted by some of our churches so it stands
as a much needed piece of work done. It has
lifted church finances to a higher and more
equitable plane. ‘
October 1, 1927, we read of the approval of
- a plan to sell Farm Lien Bonds to finance the
settlement of Russian Mennonites in Canada.
There seems to be no record of how many were
sold. There was an indebtedness of $1,200,000
to the Canadian Pacific Railroad and 10,000
more Mennonites were to be moved into Cana-
da at an additional cost of $1,500,000. Some of
these bonds were sold throughout the Confer-
ence by various individuals. (This applies only
to the Eastern District Conference portion of
that support rendered by all Mennonite bodies
through the Mennonite Central Committee.)
October 24, 1931, an offering of $86.00 was
given. One-half of this was given to the needy
in Altoona, the other half sent in the form of
food packages to starving Mennonite families
in Russia.
October 14, 1933, we assisted the Eastern
District Conference again in raising $1,500.00
for Russian refugees in Harbin, China. October
27, 1934, $1321.24 was reported paid.
October 22, 1932, a donation was given to the
Germantown Mennonite Church toward expens-
es in renovating that historic church.
November 7, 1936, we raised $300.00 to as-
sist in establishing publication work among
the Mennonites in Western Canada. This was
paid in full. More recently Spanish relief was
extended through Orie Miller.
One young man back in the early years re-
ceived some financial assistance in preparing
himself to become a medical missionary. In
1925 there was a gift to a missionary of $42.25
and in 1926, a gift to a missionary of $25.00.
October 30, 1937, a resolution was passed to
assist a young man in getting his training at
Bluffton College. $250.00 yearly was voted for
a period of four years until the completion of
his education. This was done, however, the
amount required yearly was a little less than
$250.00.
The Brotherhood through the years has sup-
ported our institutions, educational and the Old
Folks Home. These two constantly recur al-
most from its inception, and support was given
as new calls came in from year to year as
noted in the foregoing remarks. The support for
Bluffton and Witmarsum Seminary was large
and varied and for Bluffton over a long period
of time. We assisted in the various drives and
opened doors into Conference homes to per-
mit the College to make its own drives at var-
ious times, Perhaps a note here would be in or-
der. At all times great care was taken not to
conflict with the authority or responsibility
of other units of Conference or Conference it-
self. There has been nothing commanding
about the Brotherhood in any of its relation-
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ships within Conference. Its attitude has al-
ways been cooperative, friendly, and helpful
in every way. All this can easily be said and
more.
Financial and moral support was given to
the Young People’s Retreat from its start;
$25.00 yearly and for several years part of the
deficit of operating the Retreat was made up
by the Brotherhood. Recently it has supported
the development of Menolan.
Recently it was proposed and favorably acted
upon to adopt a plan for a fund to be called
the Mennonite Brotherhood Scholarship Plan.
The plan is to raise $100.00 annually for the
Fund; its purpose to assist young men to re-
ceive a Christian education. This plan needs
some smoothing down and will probably get
it. There is nothing so healthy as group dis-
cussion, when the men know what they want
and proceed to get it. We do need clarification
upon the point of what a Christian education
is and in what institutions it may be obtained.
Some of us are all too much at sea here and
we need to come to some common understand-
ing.
Thinking back over the years, it was inter-
esting to hear the brethren early years carefully
weigh each other’s counsel in a friendly man-
ner until the best of each ones thought was
put together into action. Personally, I deplore
this carrying of every detail over into a com-
mittee room. There is great value in open
floor discussions. It is the simple Mennonite
way of doing things.
The Committee on Church Promotion and
Missionary work did a great deal of exploring
and planning for a minister’s Pension Fund.
What led up to the Pension Fund was action
taken at the 1921 meeting requesting the Com-
mittee on Loman omotion and Missionary
Work to make a Survey of minister’s salaries
with a view of their receiving better and more
uniform salaries and to provide for the care of
aged preachers.
In 1922 the following recommendations were
made by the Committee:
1. To provide a suitable dwelling for the pastor.
2. Unmarried ministers should receive a mini-
mum salary of $1,200.00 annum; married
minister a minimum salary of $1,500.00 per
year with $100.00 additional for each child.
. That Conference should contribute a pen-
sion of $500.00 per year to single ministers
and $700.00 per annum to married ministers.
Three hundred dollars annually to single
ministers and $500.00 to married ministers
who may have a home.
. To carry out these recommendations there
was to be a Pastor’s Aid Band with $1.00 to
$0.50 yearly as first and second class con-
tributions respectively.
For ten years this pension plan was discuss-
ed, and a great deal of work done by the Com-
mittee investigating insurance, building and
loan, and setting up our own fund on the in-
surance principle. Conference finally adopted a
pension plan submitted as proposed by the
Brotherhood in 1932. Later minutes seem to *
imply that it was dropped as too big a job for
our Conference alone, although Conference has
a small Pension Fund now.
September 6, 1920, a rather interesting reso-
lution was passed to invite essays on the sub- ‘
ject of non-resistance and offer three prizes:
first prize $75.00, second prize $50.00, and third
prize $25.00. Later on it was decided to drop
the idea.
3. Accomplishments in Fellowship.
The Brotherhood has indeed furnished op-
portunities for men to become better acquainted
with each other and to become more keenly
interested in church activities.
Three men stand out to whom the Brother-
hood owes more than to any others since its
inception, the brethren, Max Kratz, F. K. Moy-
er, and S. M. Rosenberger, all well balanced
and prospered in their separate vocations. Their
like is hard to duplicate in many years; we
have had no such combination like it since and
may not have for a long time to come. They ‘
were true friends to one another, they loved
the church and its doctrines; each was a
worthy, successful individual in his chosen field
of occupation. They loved the brethren and sac-
rificed much for the Brotherhood in time, ex-
pense, constructive planning, and prayer.
Mr. Moyer died in office. Upon him rested
most of the detail work, and he was probably
the most valuable one of the three to the
Brotherhood. He was the best secretary we ever
had. Experienced as an accountant, his minutes
are precise, the data is all there, neatly, exactly
recorded. One has no trouble finding the true
status of things in his records.
The Brotherhood is the length of the shadow
of these three. The rest of us who come on were
simply smaller of stature and the Brotherhood
suffered accordingly. Then too, let us not un-
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derrate the value of friendship. These three
were close friends. When we are réal brethren
to one another, loving the brethren, we shall
grow much faster as the organization.
_ Who can estimate the value of the Brother-
hood meetings through all these years—twenty-
four of them? The inspiration of them, the
building up of the Faith, the arousing of de-
sire to serve our church, one another, and above
all our Lord and Saviour more faithfully, who
can estimate the value of all these opportunities
, experienced through the Brotherhood?
Yes, these three formed a well nigh perfect
, team, pulling together together as one. They
are an illustration of what the Brotherhood
can do for us all in the home churches and in
the Conference, of the necessity of unselfish
devotion to duty, love for one another, and a
_ Sympathetic regard for the other fellow’s joys
and sorrows.
Because of these Brotherhood drives many
of us have learned to give. I can still see
Brother Max Kratz, so deeply moved, the tears
rolling down his cheeks, yes, the advocate,
pleading with us for real sacrificial giving.
Think of it, a Conference without even having
a budget, and no real emphasis on giving here-
tofore, raised almost $42,000. Our people know
the value of a dollar and know how to hang
on to it. Today, some of us as individuals and
as a Conference have learned to give in a
measure as we had not in the past because of
the work done by the Brotherhood under the
leadership of Max Kratz. We have learned
that giving is worship in its highest and purest
form. Things we possess are not our own; we
are but stewards and God requires of us that
which He has given us. We smile scornfully at
Jacob’s bargain with the Lord, but even so,
Jacob has been worthier than many of us have
been, In these things Max Kratz led us with
his ability to stir up enthusiasm for a project
and to set us on fire for a cause.
. Many pleasant memories rise up before me
of these three men—S. M. Rosenberger, the ex-
perienced teacher. In the minutes, I am re-
minded again of his ability to state concisely,
constructively, and with a vision, the purpose
of the Brotherhood. See the minutes of Septem-
ber 29, 1923, and September 26, 1925. There is
_ @ standard for all Brotherhood presidents to
follow. Let me quote the statement of the
Brotherhood purpose of 1923 for your edifica-
tion.
1. To aid your home church projects.
2. To assist in the promotion of higher mor-
ality and good citizenship.
3. To help further missionary activities.
4. To foster Christian education.
5. To seek a deepening of the Christian life
and experience, especially a deepening of prayer
life, and a more faithful study of God’s Word.
6. To endeavor to increase church attendance.
7. To work and pray for the unity of be-
lievers, especially to seek to bring about a'
closer denominational fellowship.
I have mentioned Brother F. K. Moyer’s
ability to record transactions precisely and with
an orderly mind. He was gifted to analyze and
weigh all facts carefully and keep them in their
proper relationship, due to his experience as an
accountant. The Brotherhood owes a very,
very large debt of gratitude to these three
brethren, M. H. Kratz, F. K. Moyer, and S. M.
Rosenberger.
Let me note also that in the minutes of the
annual meeting of 1925 you will find the best
analysis of the address of the leading speaker
of that meeting. You read it and have the gist
of the whole address. I remembered the occa-
sion well as I read it. It is a gem and the best
resume in twenty-four years. Brother Erwin
Weiss must have been inspired when he record-
ed that portion of the minutes of the meeting.
There have been problems and one problem
recurring all through the years has been that
of membership—it is too small. A lot of en-
ergy was expended to improve the situation
but it proved ineffective. About 1923 the me-
chanics of organization and membership drives
took up too much time for the results obtained.
Some of these drives for members were neces-
sary and bore some fruit. I believe we still have
this problem with us today. There is hardly
a meeting through the years that it has not
cropped up. Why is there so much fruitlessness
of effort along this line, not only in the Broth-
erhood but in our churches, Sunday Schools,
and C. E. Societies as well?
4. Accomplishments in the deepening of Spirit-
, ual Lives.
Here are samples of topics discussed at var-
ious meetings: Peace and Church History by
A. J. Neuenschwander, Silas Grubb, and others;
Economic History of our people—How God
prospers His People; Relief—addresses by
those who were engaged in relief work or who
knew conditions—Rev Krehbiel, Rev. Janz,
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Rev. David Toews, Orie Miller, and others;
Tithing—as a solution for our financial prob-
lems; Church problems were always at the
forefront of discussion with an eye to help in
their solution; Witnessing for Christ and per-
sonal soul winning—Christian testimony by life
as well as by speech; Temperance—enforcement
of the eighteenth Amendment, a note of warn-
ing in the resolutions against gambling and all
forms of vice, Sunday desecration, and the in-
crease in power of the forces of evil in more
recent meetings.
October 22, 1932, marks the origin of a pro-
gram for monthly local chapter meetings. The
need of help to local chapters in planning pro-
grams similar to C. E. Societies and Sunday
School lessons for the study of God’s Word
led to this development. It has been worked on
ever since and is today if I am not mistaken.
It is a mighty fine piece of work and if used
by local chapters will certainly do them a great
deal of good. I tried to find some of these les-
sons, I usually save everything along this line,
but I have no copies on hand. The minutes
do not give much information as to the con-
tent of the lessons. A monthly bulletin was is-
sued containing helps on such topics as the
Home, Family Worship, Missions, and Con-
ference activities.
Recently a committee was appointed to work
out ways and means of keeping in touch with
the boys in the service and in the Civilion Pub-
lic Service Camps.
5. Conclusions.
A resolution adopted at the October 24, 1931,
meeting is of great importance. It is—“Resolv-
ed that the success of this organization depends
primarily upon the fostering of the spiritual
life through private and family devotions, sup-
porting the church in all of her regular and
special services, and as the practical expression
of our faith, to perform whatever services we
may be called upon to render.”
Here is where our weakness has been in the
past, individually, as a Brotherhood and in the
local churches. Our strength lies not in this
physical organization of a Brotherhood, but in
deeper fact that we are brethren in Christ Je-
sus, our Lord and Saviour. This organization
is but an outward expression of what is al-
ready true of us as Christians, born again
ones. If this is the true condition in each life
here today, we are kin. We love the same
things, the things of the world; we have the
same mind on things fundamental. We are in
unity and here lies true church union, the unity
of the Spirit, not merely uniting church organi-
zations. Thus we have the same love, the same
Book, the same Lord and Saviour, the same
God. When these things are so, men’s hearts
cleave to each other; they lose themselves and
their selfishness in love for the Lord and the
brethren. Build on these things and your mem-
bership will grow apace; and life begets life.
In view of these things, some of our needs
are: To unite for Christian service in our
Brotherhood and in our churches. .
For stronger, purer, holier Christian walk and
testimony.
For a new sense of the awfulness of sin in
God’s sight, man’s need of salvation, and the
awful state of doom without it.
For a finer discernment of and dependance
upon God’s Word and its application to today’s
needs.
Churches Using 100 Per Cent Church Paper Plan
Kansas
1. Bethel College Mennonite Church, North
Newton, Kansas; 2. Bruderthal Mennonite
Church, Hillsboro, Kansas; 3. Eden Mennonite
Church, Moundridge, Kansas; 4. Emmaus Men-
nonite Church; Whitewater, Kansas; 5. First
Mennonite Church, Hillsboro, Kansas; 6. First
Mennonite Church, Newton, Kansas; 7. Gar-
den Township Mennonite Church, Halstead,
Kansas; 8. Goessel Mennonite Church, Goessel,
Kansas; 9. Hebron Mennonite Church, Buhler,
Kansas; 10. Inman Mennonite Church, Inman,
Kansas; 11. Johannestal Mennonite Church,
Hillsboro, Kansas; 12. Lorraine Avenue Menno-
nite Church, Wichita, Kansas; 13. Tabor Men-
nonite Church, Newton, Kansas; 14. Walton
Mennonite Church, Walton, Kansas; 15. West
Zion Mennonite Church, Moundridge, Kansas.
i Nebraska
1. Bethesda Mennonite Church, Henderson,
Nebraska; 2. First Mennonite Church, Madrid,
Nebraska; 3. First Mennonite Church, Beatrice,
Nebraska; 4. Second Mennonite Church, Bea-
trice, Nebraska. (All families of the Salem
Mennonite Church, Wisner, also get one of our
church papers.)
: Oklahoma
1. Deer Creek Mennonite Church, Deer
’ Creek,
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Oklahoma; 2. Medford Mennonite
Church, Medford, Oklahoma.
Ohio
1. Apostolic Mennonite Church, Trenton,
_ Ohio.
Washington
1. Menno Mennonite Church, Lind, Wash-
ington; 2. Newport Mennonite Church, New-
port, Washington.
California
1. First Mennonite Church, Shafter, Cali-
'. fornia.
Illinois
Mennonite Bible Mission, Chicago, Illinois.
Minnesota
1. Woodland Mennonite Church, Warroad,
Minnesota.
Oregon :
1. Alberta Community Church, Portland,
Oregon.
South Dakota
1. Salem Mennonite Church,
South Dakota.
A total of 29 churches -had adopted the plan
by April 8, 1944.
Freeman,
History of the Bergthal Church, Corn, Oklahoma
In the spring of 1892 the Arapahoe-Cheyen-
ne Indian reservation’ was opened to white
settlement. At once some Mennonite families
* came, and the Mennonite settlement on the
Washita River grew. Among them were fami-
lies from Kansas, from the Alexanderwohl and
Hoffnungsau communities, among whom was
Rev. Peter Pankratz with family; also several
families from Nebraska.
Missionary J. J. Kliewer, who had come here
at an earlier time, was authorized by the For-
eign Mission of the General Conference to work
as missionary among the Cheyennes. Upon the
petition of Rev. Pankratz to the Home Mission
Committee of the Western District Conference
to organize a church, Elder Diedrich Gaeddert
from Hoffnungsau, was authorized to carry
out the desired organization.
Upon the arrival of Brother Gaeddert, a
meeting was called on August 24, 1894. Dur-
ing this meeting the organization was com-
pleted.
The church was organized on the basis of the
constitutions of the -Hoffnungsau and Alex-
anderwohl churches. The new organization was
called “Bergthal Mennonite Church.” At the
same brotherhood meeting the following
brethern were elected as song leaders——Ben-
jamin Ratzlaff, Henry Kliewer, Frank Adrian,
and Peter Nachtigall. The first secretary was
C. F. Duwerksen and correspondent for the
Bundesbote was F. J. Adrian. Reverend
Pankratz became leader of the church. April,
1895, a resolution was passed petitioning the
Foreign Mission board to permit them to use
the Mission Church Shelly as a place of wor-
ship. This petition was granted, and they were
to pay a small rental fee. On June 27, 1895,
two deacons were electad. Namely, Brother
Klaassen and Henry Kliewer.
The meetings were held every other Sunday
in the Mission Church; in the Sundays between,
they were held in the westehn part of the
settlement in the Sichar schoolhouse; and in
the eastern part in the home of Benjamin
Ratzlaff, which was a dugout.
Before the Mission Church could be used,
the meetings were held at the Sichar school-
house and in Greenfield and Sparta school-
house—these sodhouses with two to three feet
excavation.
This way the work was carried on till the
beginning of 1896. During the absence of
Rev. Pankratz the deacons would serve with
the word.
It was soon apparent that there were
differences of opinion and on February 24.
1890, it was decided to divide peacefully into
two separate organizations, so that nothing
might hinder the growth of the two churches.
It was further decided that Brother Pankratz
and the deacons should inform the Home
Mission Board of the separation. Brother
Pankratz did not remain with the Bergthal
Church but later organized with Deacon
Klaassen the Sichar Church. Nineteen brother-
hood meetings were held before the separation.
On the first brotherhood meeting after the
separation, Deacon Henry Kliewer was elected
as chairman of the Brotherhood, and F. J.
Adrain secretary. A resolution then was passed
to call Rev. Dietrich Gaeddert to serve us
with baptism and communion. When Rev.
Gaeddert came, he baptized Anna Peters,
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daughter of John Peters, and administered
holy communion. On the second brotherhood
meeting it was decided to ask Brother J. J.
Kliewer, Missionary among the Indians, to
serve as leader and minister besides his work
among the Indians.
After careful deliberation Brother Kliewer
declared himself willing to accept the call and
through Brother J. J. Kliewer and Deacon
Henry Kliewer constituted the church board.
On April 3, 1898, it was decided to hold an
election of two ministers and one deacon in
the near future. On June 14, 1899, Elder Peter
Balzer of Alexanderwohl was called to serve
with baptism and communion and also preside
over the election.
On June 14, 1899, four young people were
baptized, and on June 15, communion was
held in forenoon and the election in the after-
noon. The brethern elected as ministers were:
John Peters and John Flaming. Benjamin
Ratzlaff was elected as deacon.
A few months before this, Rev. J. B. Baer,
traveling evangelist of the General Conference,
visited us and suggested that we as Oklahoma
Churches should hold an annual convention.
He appointed Rev. J. S. Krebiel, Geary, as
chairman and several other brethren in the
program committee.
The first convention was held September
10—12, 1899, in the Mission Church at Shelly.
Sichar, Herold, Springfield, (Swiss Church)
and Bergthal served as host churches. Among
the invited guests from Kansas were Rev.
Christian Krehbiel, Rev. Jacob Penner,
Bruderthal, and Rev. H. D. Penner, Hillsboro,
and other visitors. Though we travelled on farm
wagons we remained the full three days in the
convention and had a blessed time.
For the ordination of the Brethren John
Peters and John Flaming, as ministers, and
for the installation of Benjamin Ratzlaff as
Deacon, Rev. Peter Balzer and Rev. Abraham
Ratzlaff from Kansas were invited. On the 14th
of April, 1901, Communion services were held,
and the following Tuesday, April 16, the two
brethren were ordained by Rev. Balzer.
Missionary Dirks from Russia was here and
held meetings—also John Kroeker. The desire
for our own church building became more
and more pronounced and on August 4, 1901,
a brotherhood meeting was called at the Sparta
schoolhouse. Here it was decided that free
will pledges should be made. These amounted «
to $405.00. It was unanimously decided to
accept the offer of Brother Benjamin Ratzlaff ©
to donate one and one-half acres of land as a
site for the church building. At the next
brotherhood meeting it was decided that the
building should be 26 x 40. On August 13,
1901, John Peters was appointed to super-
vise the building of the church. The stones
for the foundation were quarried on the H. P.
Kliewer farm.
The work of building was soon begun. Henry
Grouse was main carpenter and Peter Penner
his assistant; otherwise the work was volun-
teered by the members.
On November 17, 1901, the new church was
ready for dedication. Herold, Sichar, Gotebo,
and Geary congregations were invited. A tent
had been erected and the church acted as
host to the visitors. Free will offerings, $818.00,
—the total expenses were $947. Borrowed
$150.00 leaving a surplus of $21.55 in the
treasury. The debt was soon paid. Brother
Emil Hinz donated land for the cemetary.
A sad note entered the festivities; Brother
Nachtigal had died the day before. He had
hauled stones to the church and had helped in
the building of the foundation.
Brother Nachtigall was buried in the new
Bergthal Cemetary, and his wife who had
preceded him in death was disinterred at Shelly
and buried beside him. These with Grandfather
Dalke were the first graves in the cemetary.
Brother Emil Hinz, John Heidebrecht, and F. J.
Adrian were the first trustees. Soon after the
dedication the families J. L. Kliewer, Henry
Kliewer, and P. J. Schmit moved to the newly
opened Gotebo settlement. Brother John Flam-
ing was elected as leader of the Bergthal
Church. On October 23-24 the church was
host to the Oklahoma Convention. The work
continued. Rev. Michael Klaassen of the
Herold Church served us with baptism and
communion a number of times.
On October 12, 1910, at a brotherhood mect-
ing it was decided to enlarge the present build-
ing as soon as $500.00 would be pledged. Henry
Merk and P. G. Baergen were appointed to
collect money and pledges. On October 28,
1910, it was decided to make an addition 12 by
26 on each side. The money was collected, and
the work of enlargement was begun. On Feb-
ruary 10, 1911, John Flaming was elected Elder,
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J. G. Baergen as evangelist, and J. H. Ediger
as deacon. On May 14, 1911, John Flaming
was ordained as Elder by Elder M. Klaassen.
The brethren Baergen and Ediger were not as
yet ready to take over their work. On May 22
a resolution was passed that Brother J. G.
Baergen should be ordained as minister in-
stead of evangelist. He was thus ordained
August 13, 1911, while at the same time Broth-
er J. H. Ediger was installed as deacon by Rev.
John Flaming.
The Western District Conference was held
here in November, 1911. Having withdrawn
from active work for some years, as a result
of bad health, Rev. John Peters died in 1917.
On August 21, 1921, Rev. W. S. Gottschall
ordained G. M. and Ruth Baergen as workers
in the Home Mission of the General Confer-
ence. At the annual meeting in 1920 it was
decided that evangelists H. W. Franzen and
H. L. Janzen were to assist Brother Flaming
in the work since Brother J. G. Baergen had
withdrawn from active service due to poor
health. On August 8, 1921, Brother H. L.
Janzen was called by the church as minister
and on January 29, 1922, he was ordained by
Elder John Flaming. He served till November,
1923, when he moved to Enid. An April 18,
1926, a jubilee celebration was held for Brother
John Flaming, who had served the church ten
years as minister and fifteen as elder. The
“church presented him with a new car. On
December 30, 1931, Rév. John Flaming re-
signed from part of his work because of the ill
health of his wife. Later it was decided that
H. W. Franzen should serve as leader in the
absence of Brother Flaming. On November
5, 1933, John Flaming resigned as Elder. A
call was then extended to Rev. J. J. Kroeker,
who served the church twice a month for some
time. Since Brother Kroeker could not preach
in English, nor was willing to become a mem-
ber of the church, Brother Hege, who had ac-
cepted a position in the Corn High School,
was approached to accept a call as minister.
This call was later augmented to include the
leadership of the church. Brother Hege accept-
ed. Brother Hege was ordained as Elder on
October 8, 1939.
The church has grown slowly the last years.
The total active membership at present is be-
low 100. The total active membership during
average times is between 135 and 140.
We have made some progress with the re-
modeling of the building. We have an active
ladies’ mission society, whose sale last fall was-
over $1200.00. We have a good young peo-
ple’s meeting and a church choir.
History of Mennoville Church, Near El Reno, Okla.
(The following historical sketch is taken
from an account of the Fifty Year Jubilee of
the Mennoville Church, held on November 28,
1943. The article was written by Rev. H. T.
Neufeld, who has served the church for many
years, and appeared in the Mennonite Weekly
Review.)
“Mennoville is the oldest General Conference
church in Oklahoma. Some of the charter
members were at first mission workers ‘at the
Darlington Mission for the Indians. The old
mission site is six miles southwest and services
were held at Abraham Bergmans. This was in
the fall of 1890 or the spring of 1891. Joel
Sprunger and Isaac Penner were’ chosen as
leaders and in the spring of 1892 were elected
and: ordained as déacons.' Missionary H.-R.
Voth officiated and also assisted in the organi-
zation of the church: Sixtéen families’ made
up the charter’ mernbérs: When’ spring came
again (1893) the church was being’ built: Oa
Sunday morning, June 21, it was dedicated and
in the afternoon Bro. Sprunger was ordained
as their minister and Bro. J. H. Schmidt as
deacon to fill the vacancy left by Bro. Sprung-
er.
The congregation was never large, yet many
have worshipped here at some time or other.
Among the ministers who served Mennoville
we find the following names: C. Ramseyer, J.
S. Krehbill, Jacob W. Penner, A. S. Voth, J. J.
Voth, M. M. Horsch, R. Petter, J. B. Bacr,
Jac. Toews, J. S. Hirschler, J. K. Penner, H. D.
Penner, Chris Krehbill, J. B. Epp and others.
Three or four ministers, Joel Sprunger,
Henry Funk, H. D. Voth and'W. 'C: Voth; the
last a missionary to China;’and one deacon-
ness, Sister Zippora Meshbetger,; have come out
of this church. There may have béen others.
The church is still in existence. It stands
there a lighthouse on a hill, seven miles north
of El Reno, a silent witness not only to the
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community but also to the constant stream of
motorists passing by on Highway No. 81. The
congregation that meets here is not large.
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Through the years a number have moved away,
some have left and others have been called to
the beyond.”
History of the Deer Creek Mennonite Chureh (o1}
Sunday, August 27, 1944, marked the forty-
fifth anniversary of the founding of the Deer
Creek Mennonite Church.
The first Mennonite families came to the
Deer Creek vicinity shortly after the opening
of the Cherokee strip in 1893. The first fami-
lies were those of Daniel Krehbiel, Jacob
Haury, Menno Beudler, and Henry Wicke.
Mr. and Mrs. Wicke were not Mennonites at
the time of settling here but joined later. All
four families came from the Halstead and
Moundridge communities in Kansas.
Within the next few years other Mennonite
families settled here, coming mostly from
Kansas and Iowa. In the spring of 1898 the
town of Deer Creek was laid out almost ad-
joining to the farms on which some of the
Mennonites had settled.
The group immediately felt the need of
spiritual fellowship and worship. They met for
services in a school house a mile west of Deer
Creek. Visiting pastors came to serve them
from time to time among whom were Rev.
Christian Krehbiel, Rev. Valentine Krehbiel,
and Rev. Wilhelm Galle of Kansas, Rev.
Christian Ramseyer of Orienta, Okla., then
traveling minister for the Oklahoma churches,
and Rev. John Baer of Summerfield, Illinois.
In the summer of 1899 the group felt strong
enough to organize as a congregation. On Au-
gust 27, 1899, a meeting was held, presided
over by Rev. Wilhelm Galle of Moundridge,
Kansas, and the Deer Creek Mennonite Church
was formally organized. A charter was drawn
up and signed by those who wished to be-
come members of the newly organized church.
A short while later a constitution was adopted
by the congregation.
The charter members were Mr. and Mrs.
Dan Krehbiel, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dester,
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Haury, Mr. and Mrs.
John Staufer, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dester, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Dester, Mr. and Mrs. Justus
Hohmann, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Hohmann,
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Lugenbill, J. C. Peters,
Christian Eberle, and Christian Goebel.
The congregation first held services in the
school house one mile west of Deer Creek,
and later in the school house in Deer Creek.
In 1902 the group built a church house in
Deer Creek and it was dedicated to the worship
of God, our Heavenly Father, by Rev. Manas-
sas Moyer, the pastor of the congregation at
that time. In the winter of 1931 the building
was enlarged and re-dedicated on Easter day
April 5, 1931.
The first regular pastor of this congregation
was Rev. Christian Goebel who was elected
from the membership first as evangelist and on
the day of organization was ordained as pas-
tor by Rev. Wilhelm Galle. In order to more
fully prepare himself for the pastoral duties,
Rev. Goebel attended Bethel College, but
(Continued on page 32)
OUR HOSPITALS
By H. J.
In the year 1732, just outside of the city
limits of what was then the city of Philadelphia,
a small hospital, the first church hospital in
our United States, opened its doors to take
in all who needed hospital care regardless of
race, creed or color, or financial standing. Since
that time more than 3,000 other church hos-
pitals likewise have opened their doors to
take in those who are ill. We are told that
since the year 1871, the population of the
United States has doubled. Hospitals since
Andres
that time have increased by 4,200 per cent.
The reason for this achievement in the
number of hospitals can be found with the
church. The Christian Church has well remem-
bered the teaching of the Master and has al-
ways regarded the care of the sick as an obli-
gation of the church. Therefore, the church
saw in the work of hospitals an opportunity
to discharge certain obligations and gave freely
of its time and effort to establish and maintain
church hospitals.
THE MENNONITE YEARBOOK, 1945 11
The churches of our General Conference
have likewise regarded hospital work as work
of the church and have and are giving their
support to the work of these institutions. We
count the following hospitals as coming under
the auspices of -our General Conference,
namely:
Salem Deaconess Hospital, Salem, Oregon
Frank F. Wedel, Superintendent
Rev. John P. Neufeld, President of the board
Capacity 118 beds
Mennonite Deaconess Hospital,
Beatrice, Nebraska
Mrs. Ursula Frantz, R.N., Superintendent
Mr. Henry Reimer, President of the board
Capacity 40 beds
Mennonite Bethesda Hospital,
Goessel, Kansas
Miss Hilda Woelk, R.N., Superintendent
Rev. C. C. Wedel, President of the board
Capacity 20 beds
Concordia Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada
Dr. H. Oelkers, Medical Superintendent
Miss Olga Rempel, R.N., Matron
Mr. J. J. Schulz, President of the board
Bethel Deaconess Hospital, Newton, Kansas
H. J. Andres, Administrator
Rev. J. E. Entz, President of the board
Capacity 95 beds
(The number of beds given in each instance
includes bassinets.)
It has been said that our hospitals should
be Christ-centered, should be church-centered,
and should be community-centered. They should
be Christ-centered from the standpoint of
motive. The love of Christ should be the
compelling force. They should be church-cen-
tered from the standpoint of sponsorship and
control. Hospitals as such should be and act
as agencies of the church through which the
church serves. They should be community-
centered from the standpoint of service,—serv-
ing all mankind regardless of race, creed or
color, or financial standing. In order that this
be accomplished it is essential that the church
maintain a close and intimate relationship with
the hospitals and that hospitals remain con-
scious of the fact that hospital work is church
work and that they seek to render this service
only in the spirit and manner in which Christ
served us.
Report From Freeman Junior College
Certainly at the close of the forty-first year
we can say with the Psalmist (92:1) “It is a
good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and
to sing praises unto thy name, O most High.”
ENROLLMENT
War conditions still affected the enrollment
for the 1943-1944 school year. The sharpest
drop came in the College—42 (1942-1943) to
19. This represents the lowest for more than a
decade. On the other hand, the Academy en-
rollment showed an increase from 70 to 90—
largest figure since 1937 when there were 104.
The total for the two departments was 109
as compared with 112 for the 1942-1943 school
year.
LIBRARY
There are some 5,000 volumes in our Library.
The Library receives approximately 55 maga-
zines, papers, and pamphlets—some of these
are sent gratis. Last year some 2,000 items
were checked out by students and faculty mem-
bers. This figure does not include the current
magazines which are used without checking
formally at the desk.
EXTENSION
Due to tire and gas restrictions the contact
work in the churches suffered somewhat. How-
ever, programs were given by students and
faculty members in most of the surrounding
churches in the community. During the summer
months it was my privilege to visit the church-
es in the surrounding states and some of the
CPS Camps in our area. This church visita-
tion work affords students and faculty a very
practical opportunity for Christian service. It
also gives the churches a better opportunity
for more intimate connections with the school.
Our hope is to make this work more effective
as restrictive war measures are lifted.
Former students are availing themselves of
the opportunity to take correspondence work
with us. Five were enrolled for courses during
the past year.
BOOKSTORE—MUSEUM
During the years when Mr. Schwartz had
charge of these two enterprises marked pro-
gress has been made. The Museum has grown
from a few stray articles to literally hundreds
12 THE MENNONITE YEARBOOK, 1945
of valuable items neatly arranged for display.
The bookstore has returned a nice balance
each year into the general fund. Last year
the gross sales amounted to approximately
$2,200.00 Mr. Schwartz’s skillful management
and careful planning will be keenly felt.
CAMPUS AND BUILDINGS
Notable improvements are the cistern back
of the main building, a drinking fountain,
weatherstripping and insulation of the gym-
nasium plus painting and stage equipment.
The hall floors in the main building have been
painted by our Custodian, Mr. Preheim, whe
also donated the paint for this project. As
in other years, the Senior Class of 1944 left
a gift for the school—a hedge planted on either
side of the walk leading directly into the build-
ing.
FINANCIALLY
Financially, the forty-first year marked the
end of the “old debt.” The two year campaign
to accomplish this fact was inaugurated in the
fall of 1942. During the two years the cash do-
nations have amounted to $44,730.29—the total
for the past year being $25,771.78. This was
more than enough to pay off all the creditors.
We are grateful to our Heavenly Father and
the many kind friends who were willing to give
for this happy event in the history of the Col-
lege. Some of the surplus was used to increase
salaries and buy needed equipment.
In most respects the year was a very pleasant
one. Money seemed more plentiful and practi-
cally all student accounts were paid before the
end of the year. There were no serious situa-
tions to disturb the normal flow of events.
God was mercifully kind to us. Two problems
will demand continued attention: the first one
concerns higher salaries for our instructors and
the second calls for more adequate equipment
and facilities to offer the courses in our cur-
riculum.
Our constituency is growing—our debts are
now paid. We can look forward with more
confidence. We continue to solicit the prayers
of all Christian people who believe in a way
of life which finds its main motivation in -
Christ our Lord and Saviour.
Respectfully submitted,
J. D. Unruh, Pres.
Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas
These recent years have been difficult ones.
The Lord’s promise, “As thy need so shall thy
strength be,” becomes increasingly precious in
such times.
1. STUDENTS. The high mark in enroll-
ment for Bethel College was reached three
years ago in the school year 1939-40 when the
total was 527 of whom 324 were Mennonites
representing 76 congregations. By 1942-43 the
total enrollment had dropped to 332 with 252
Mennonites from 59 congregations. For the
past year the figures are even smaller. The
greater decrease is, of course with men stu-
dents. ;
2. FACULTY. The faculty and staff also
has been greatly reduced. Some accepted other
teaching or preaching positions, others were
drafted, others joined the Red Cross, others are
working for the Mennonite Central Committee
doing research or relief work while still others
are on leave of absence’ for health teasons.
3. FINANCES. As our missions and others
conferetice treasuries, so*also Bethel College
has not been forgotteri by those wihio believe’ in
the work of Christian education:*Fhe tots :con-
|
tributions during the last three years amount-
ed on an average to $83,955.67 per year and
have come from an average of 2,572 different
persons per year. The total net worth of the
school according to the last auditor’s report
is $993,314.77 which is an increase of $246,638.-
84 over what it was three years ago. For all
of this we are grateful. However, at this writ-
ing, our debt is still not quite paid.
4. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS. In recent
years our ministerial students have greatly in-
creased. Last year we had more than twenty,
nine of whom were married, Our Student Vol-
unteers for Christian service numbered over
forty. This phase of the work has always been
considered of greatest importance to our Board
and faculty. The ministerial training course
has ‘been’ extended and with the help of the.
brethren H: A. Fast, C. E. Krehbiel, P. A.
Penner; and D. C. Wedel, the teaching person-
nel‘in this area has also been strengthened.
The ‘work program which once was in great
demand “has been cotisidefably reduced due to
shortave of ‘labor. It ‘will only be with great
difficulty that it can be kept intact so’as to
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again serve the young people upon their re-
turn in larger numbers after the war.
The C.P.S. program is greatly affecting our
college, not only in that many of our students
and staff members are at present in C.P.S., but
also in that we believe C.P.S. has a permanent
and great contribution to make to Mennonite
‘higher education after the war in the direction
of making it a more practical, vital and Christ-
centered experience.
Colleges must change. Bethel has a standing
Research Committee at work and before long it
should be ready to recommend changes that we
believe will be of far reaching effect for both
the school and its contituency. The tendency is
toward closer conference affiliation, more rec-
ognition of the true genius of our people, and
the long range contribution they can make to
the Church and Christ’s Kingdom by preserv-
ing, refining and building our destiny on our
God-given heritage. With Jesus Christ as the
foundation, the school moves on into the next
half century.
Respectfully submitted,
Ed. G. Kaufman, President
BLUFFTON COLLEGE
Another year, subject to the handicaps and
discouragments of war-time education, has
successfully ended. While education in these
times has its hardships, it also has its elements
of reward and encouragement. Education al-
ways carries with it hope for the ‘future, and it
is a challenge in such days as these to try to
educate the oncoming generation to a higher
standard than that held by the past, so that
with deep Christian devotion and with the pe:-
meation of Christian standards into its. think-
ing about the problems of life, it will not make
the mistakes which our generation made. If
there is hope for the future, it must be in
Christ, and thus Christian education carries
with it a renewed purpose and goal. The darker
the conditions in which it exists, the greater
the evident need for it and the greater the
challenge which it presents.
Our constituency has reacted to this need.
Increased support is probably due to the better
financial conditions which exist today, and
also to the fact that the need for Christian
education is now so apparent. Speaking of the
financial condition of the college, the auditor
in his report on the year’s operations says,
“The results this year are the best the college
has enjoyed during the eight years" it has been
my privilege to audit your books, ‘and indi-
cates ....a loyal constituency that is interest-
ed in ‘Christian education, and promises a
hopeful outlook for.the future of the college.”
The past year has been the, fifth, consecutive
year of operation on, a balanced budget, Near-
ly $34,000. was given to the current and im-
provement. funds. The, chief regret. financially
has. been, that,.due to. low. student tuition: in-
come so large an amount of gift money had to
be spent for operating expenses. In spite of
this, more than one-fourth of the goal of
$50,000 for improvements has been reached
and set aside in a special fund for that purpose.
The enrollment has continued low. There is
evidence that even among our own Mennonite
groups there needs to be increased emphasis
on the need of continuing education in days
like this, and on the importance of choosing~
Christian rather than non-Christian education-
al institutions. Many of our people have suc-
cumbed to the temptation to put off their
education in favor of immediate financial re-
turns. It must be stressed that the need for
properly prepared Christian workmen is large
and getting larger, and we should encourage
our youth who are at liberty to make their
own choices to prepare to meet this need.
Much thought and effort is now going into
planning for post-war education. Planning is
difficult because there are so many unknowns
in the post-war picture: When will the increase
in students begin? What type of students will
they be? What will be their interests and needs?
Will young people be free to make their own
choices, or will they be subjected to some form
of military conscription? These and many
other uncertainties make the job of the post-
war educational planner difficult.
Bluffton College is struggling with the job
of rebuilding itself. It is attempting to secure
young men and women wholeheartedly com-
mitted to the beliefs of the college and ther
church which supports it, individuals who un-
derstand youth, are highly educated, and who
are willing-to make Christiam education -their
life’s.. mission. One does not fully realize the
scarcity of properly -qualified- men and women
of this type until he attempts to find them.
The qualifications for an acceptable faculty
14 THE MENNONITE YEARBOOK, 1945
member for a Mennonite college are high, and
it must be acknowledged that we have little in
the way of financial advantages to offer them.
They must be motivated by a sense of mission
if they are to accept such an appointment.
The building of the proper faculty is so im-
portant a problem that it eclipses all other
problems, and others are largely secondary
to it. For example, if the proper faculty can
be secured, then the solution of that one prob-
lem will go far toward the solution of prob-
lems of adequate enrollment and finance.
The problem of meeting the needs of the con-
stituency is an important one. An institutional
study has been in progress to attempt to dis-
cover these needs. Reports of the results ob-
tained from that study will be published peri-
odically. Meanwhile further research into the
problems of the college will be continued.
Finances continue to be a problem. Meager
salaries have become more inadequate due to
living costs which have increased far more
than salaries have been advanced. The future
college must more nearly meet the financial
needs of its staff members. This means that
reliable and permanent sources of income must
be discovered. The Friendship Group has been
a good source of income, and its use should be
extended. Its real test will come when general _
financial conditions turn downward.
We must continue to survey the field for
additional larger donors who would be able to
help materially in the construction of new
buildings. Bluffton needs improvement in its
physical education, music, and women’s dormi-
tory facilities.
Above all, the major purpose for which the
college exists, its Christian emphasis, must be
continually strengthened. It must be a purpose
which we not only teach, but live. All that we
do must be consistent with that purpose. .Our
ends must be continuously sought by means
which are consistent with those ends. Yet it
must not be forgotten that education toward
these ends will be seriously handicapped unless
the material conditions are improved and the
financial structure of the college strengthened.
We solicit the constructive criticisms, the
help, and the prayers of all of our people to-
ward the end that Bluffton might fill the
educational needs of the church and assist
young people to prepare for lives of Christian
service.
Activities of the Mennonite Central Committee in 1944
By Irvin B. Horst
The present program of the Mennonite Cen-
tral Committee is an expression on the part
of Mennonites in America to bring relief and
assistance to other Mennonites and the world
at large during the present war and suffering.
As such, its activities have been of an emer-
gency nature and have varied according to
the need and the opportunity to serve. Abroad,
War Sufferers Relief began with the sending
of relief to Poland in 1939. This program is
now entering its sixth year of service with
seventy workers on the field. At home, as a
result of conscription for war services, the
alternative Civilian Public Service program
was begun and is now well into the fourth
year of administration. The Peace Section
for the past two years has been endeavoring
to find the way for American Mennonites as
we come into conflict with a wartime society.
A new section, Mennonite Aid, was fully organ-
ized during the past year. This section has
been giving attention to the rehabilitation of
C. P. S. men, and has been engaged in research
study of Mennonite colonization efforts.
The Relief Program
In England the Mennonite Central Com-
mittee continued throughout the past year its
program of relief on behalf of war victims.
Glen Miller was sent in the spring to assume
directorship. He also arranged for the further
development of the London Center, which in
addition to distributing relief clothing, is now
also, a hostel for homeless children. John
Coffman and Henry Buller assist him at the
center. Early in 1945 Glen Miller will return
to the States and S. J. Goering will succeed
him as director. “Taxal Edge,” a home for
convalescent boys from Birmingham and Man-
chester, is in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Dyck. Vernon Toews, as cook, and John Thut,
as educational director, were sent to help with
this project. Three nurses, Edna Hunsperger,
Mabel Cressman and Ellen Harder, work in
hostels for evacuated children and old people.
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Eleven Mennonite relief workers are stationed
in England.
With the progress of the war, many of the
relief workers now in England will no doubt
be shifted to the more needy areas in Central
Europe. Workers have been appointed to enter
France and Holland as soon as entrance can
be gained. Thirty-five tons of relief clothing
have been or are in the process of being sent,
to these areas. No doubt, Central Europe will
receive a large share of Mennonite relief ef-
forts in the coming year.
In Paraguay the M. C. C. has been keeping
in close touch with the Mennonite colonists in
the Chaco. Most of the assistance during the
past year was largely of a professional nature.
Dr. and Mrs. John Schmidt are engaged in
medical work among the colonists. Dr. and
Mrs. G. S. Klassen have returned after extract-
ing hundreds of teeth for the Paraguayan Men-
nonites and meeting their various dental needs.
They were able to train several dentistry ap-
prentices before they left Paraguay. Mrs.
Klassen gave demonstrations in food prepara-
tion. During the year Mrs. Vernon Schmidt
joined her husband at the Fernheim colony
where he continues with the road-building
project. Mrs. Schmidt serves in the hospital
work. During the past year Mr. and Mrs.
Willard Smith were appointed as relief workers
to Paraguay. They have taken up quarters
in Asuncion from where Brother Smith has
directed the relief program and also taken
charge of the Mennonite Center in that city.
Orie Miller visited this work in August as a
basis for future planning for relief work there.
Plans have been made to send at least a
score of workers to assist the colonists and
also to initiate a rehabilitation project among
the native Paraguayans. Robert Geigley has
been surveying the possibilities of a supple-
mentary feeding project. Orval Myers was
sent as an electrical engineer and Elvin Souder
as an assistant in the center in Asuncion.
Waldo Hiebert and wife have been appointed
to serve on the faculty of the Bible school at
Fernheim colony.
Relief work in Puerto Rico expanded consid-
erably during the past year. A corps of
thirty-five workers are now on this small island
engaged in a combination health and educa-
tional program in the La Plata valley. Twenty-
four of these workers are C.P.S. men who
this past summer completed the building of
a 25-bed hospital. This hospital has. received
the interest and support of local officials and
has been able to meet a real need in the com-
munity. Dr. Delbert Preheim is in charge, with
Dr. H. Clair Amstutz and Dr. G. D. Troyer
assisting. A dentist, Earl Stover, has also
been sent to the island to carry out a dental
program parallel to the medical program. Five
nurses and a dental hygienist have been sent
to assist in the medical program. An educa-
tional and recreational program has been
Organized at La Plata and at several outlying
towns. This part of the program provides
training in health, agriculture, and home-
making. Two school teachers have, been sent
to serve as instructors in local schools. A health
and physical fitness program has been organ-
ized and is in charge of one of the nurses.
The Middle East during the past year be-
came an area of service for Mennonite relief
when thousands of refugees from Greece,
Poland, and Yugoslavia came into Egypt, Pal-
estine and Syria. Sixteen Mennonite relief
workers have been commissioned and sent to
work in the refugee camps in Egypt. Four of
these workers have gone directly under United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administra-
tion, which is responsible for the refugees in
this area, and the other workers are cooperating
also. Our workers are serving mostly in the
El Shatt and Tolumbat camps for Yugoslav
refugees as nurses, dietitians, recreational, and
educational supervisors. Delvin Kirchhofer and
Dr. G. Richard Yoder, who were the original
Mennonite workers in this area are serving
as welfare director and doctor respectively.
In July of this past year, J. N. Byler was sent
into the Middle East as a relief commissioner to
survey the field and to coordinate the work of
the various Mennonite appointees.
In the Far East relief was brought through
the Mennonite Relief Committee in India to
famine sufferers in the Bengal region. The
work was begun in the summer of 1943 by the
Mennonite missionaries in India. F. J. Isaac
and George Baere were sent later to take
_ charge of the project. The famine was grievous,
and many thousands died in the vicinity of
Calcutta. Our workers spent most of their
efforts distributing food during the critical
time of the famine which covered the period,
November, 1943, to April 1944. A hospital and
work camp for rehabilitation have also been
established. Three additional workers are on
their way to India at the time of this writing
to assist with the relief program in Bengal.
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There are indications that additional famine
conditions will develop.
In May of this past year S. J. Goering and
J. D. Graber returned from their trip to investi-
gate the relief situation in China. They re-
ported grave need and opportunity for service
and recommended that a small unit be sent
into the province of Honan. Further develop-
ments of the war in China changed these plans
and the added problems of entrance, trans-
portation, and inflation of currency have stalled
any relief effort at this time. A number of
relief workers for China were appointed during
the past year and are traveling at least as
far as Calcutta to be ready to enter when the
door opens.
The Mennonite churches during the past
year gave liberally to the relief clothing pro-
gram. The cutting rooms at Gordonville, Bluff-
ton, Kalona, and Kitchener have been busy.
Two new collection centers were opened, and a
third is in the process of opening. Mrs. M. C.
Lehman was asked to direct from Akron the
over-all program. At Akron, Anna Snyder is
in charge with a number of part-time workers
to assist her. Elma Esau was appointed to
take charge of the Newton, Kansas, center
which opened in September. Clara Snider is
in charge of the center at Kitchner, Ontario.
An additional center is to be set up at Winnipeg,
Manitoba. These additional centers were organ-
ized to better serve the Mennonite and Brethren
in Christ constituencies during this time when
increased amounts of relief clothing will be
needed.
From September 30, 1943, to October 1, 1944,
approximately 35,000 pounds of relief clothing
were sent to war sufferers. Ten tons were sent
for refugees in the Middle East, six and one-
half tons to homeless in Normandy, France,
and several hundred pounds of bedding and
other materials to outfit the hospital in Puerto
Rico. These shipments had a value of
$37,735.87.
Civilian Public Service
The Mennonite Civilian Public Service pro-
gram has gone into its fourth year with the
support of the constituent bodies. The number
of men in the camps and units has steadily
increased. As of November 15, 1943, there were
2,872 men in Mennonite camps; as of November
15, 1944, there were 3,441. Of this number 2,045
are in base camps and 1,396 are on special
projects. During the past year the program
has expanded from thirty-six units to forty-
five. About 46 per cent of the total men in
C.P.S. camps are in Mennonite units. The
base camp at Lapine, Oregon, was closed in
deference to Selective Service who wished to
make it a government-administrated unit. The
camp at Wells Tannery, Pennsylvania, was
closed. A new base camp was opened at Powels-
ville, Maryland.
C.P.S. men are performing work of national
importance in cooperation with several agencies
of the U.S. Government which is responsible
for the project work. The departments employ-
ing the services of the largest groups of men
are the Soil Conservation Service, Forest Ser-
vice, and National Park Service. The S.C.S.
alone is using 861 men on its projects and it
is felt that many Mennonite men have a genius
for this type of work. A limited number of
men are on projects in cooperation with the
Farm Security Administration and Bureau of
Reclamation. In special projects 783 men are
in mental hospitals and training school units.
On farms and in dairy herd testing 378 are
employed. Men from M.C.C.-C.P.S. camps have
taken an interest in and volunteered for smoke
jumpers unit at Huson, Montana, which was
considerably expanded during the past fire
season to include 115 men. Men in this unit
fight forest fires in unaccessible areas of the
Rocky Mountains by parachuting from air-
planes. Several C.P.S. men also: served as
“guinea pigs” on projects conducted by the
office of Scientific Research and Development.
In these units the men subject themselves to
experiments to determine more effective ways
of combating atypical pneumonia, of rehabil-
itating individuals who have lived in starvation
situations. Another experiment related to the
proper diet for people who live in cold and
tropical climates.
The emphases of the educational program
in the camps and units changed considerably
during the past year. Not only was relief train
ing emphasized, but an interest grew out of
the Farm and Community School, which was
held at the Hagerstown camp in the fall and
winter of 1943-44, which has led to a training
for community contribution and living. Con-
sequently, in the fall of this year four schools
in, farm and community living, with about
150 men enrolled, were organized on farms and
units near Lincoln, Nebraska, and the Terry,
Montana, camps. At these schools the agri-
cultural nature of the project is integrated with
the study of activities to have the men face
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and think through the fundamental problems
of living in a Christian community. Following
the same pattern as these schools in community
living, specialized schools in Christian service
and psychiatry are in the process of being set
up at the Hagerstown camp and at the Harris-
burg, Pennsylvania, and Marlboro, New Jersey,
mental hospital units. Another development
in the educational life of the camps was a
plan whereby academic credit may be granted
to C.P.S. men who pursue certain courses while
in camps. This arrangement was worked out
through the deans of Mennonite and Brethren
in Christ colleges. During the summer a
number of Bible, music, art, and craft institutes
were conducted which greatly interested the
men in the camps. An organized effort was
made to interpret the work project to C.P.S.
men and thus gain a greater interest in the
work being done. This was carried out in con-
junction with project training promoted by
the government agencies. In mental hospitals
there has been a wholesome trend on the part-
of many of the men to render a valuable service
to patients and to put into practice the Chris-
tian techniques of love, patience, and kindness.
The relief training program in C.P.S. camps
and units continued throughout the past year
with some expansion. In addition to the train-
ing work done at Ypsilanti, Mich.; Howard,
Rhode Island; Mulberry, Florida; Beltsville,
Maryland; the base camp at Denison, Iowa, was
organized to provide relief training. A few
men from Mennonite camps are also taking re-
lief training under other agencies at.the units
at Alexian Brothers Hospital, Chicago, Illinois,
and Duke University Hospital, Durham, North
Carolina. The program continues in charge of
E. E. Miller of Goshen College. During the
summer months forty-six young women en-
tered the relief training units at Howard and
Ypsilanti. This was a new movement for def-
inite foreign relief service. At the Akron Of-
fice ray eae office in relief assisted in the
relief training program. This office has also
carried out a number of special research proj-
ects which are to be employed in the relief
training units and in the constituency at large.
M. C. Lehman prepared a pamphlet on the
Mennonite philosophy of relief work and John
Bender a book on Paraguay and the Mennonite
colonization efforts there.
A number of personnel changes took place
in the past year. John Mosemann, Raymond
Hartzler, and Phil Frey left the C.P.S. Section.
Erwin Goering and Ralph Beechy were appoint-
ed as regional directors. In the Hospital Sec-
tion, J. N. Byler entered relief service as com-
missioner to the Middle East and was succeeded
by Robert Kreider. Roy Wenger was also ap-
pointed in the administration of hospital units.
As the C.P.S. program goes well into its
fourth year new problems are being faced and
old ones accentuated. In October of this year
M.C.C. decided, and informed Selective Service,
that on the present basis it would be willing to
continue the C.P.S. program for the duration.
The public relations problem still exists par-
ticularly in the hospital units, but as a whole
where the provision for the conscientious ob-
jector has been understood he has been toler-
ated. The constituent churches have continued
their support of the C.P.S. program. At the
present time $26.93 per man is needed for
maintenance in a base camp and $3.94 per man
on a special project. In addition to this financial
support the churches have again this year
enthusiastically prepared and canned more than
200,000 quarts of vegetables, fruit, etc., besides
preserving considerable quantities of dried
fruits, fish, meat, etc.
Morale in the camps has remained fair.
With the extension of the period in camp many
of the men have become married. Approxi-
mately 33 per cent of M.C.C.-C.P.S. men are
married. The problem of dependency has in-
creased. The M.C.C. at a meeting in Chicago
on March 18 adopted a statement of policy to
assist C.P.S. men with their dependency needs.
Policies regarding medical service and dental
care were liberalized at an earlier meeting.
With rumors of the European phase of the war
drawing to a close, Selective Service and the
agencies have conferred on plans for the de-
mobilization of C.P.S. men. Among both C.P.S.
men and the leaders of the program there
remains the conviction that the present C.P.S.
program should go on and that it can be
made vital in the lives of the men and an
asset to the church, and above all — it provides
a constructive program in wartime to give
testimony to the way of peace and love.
Peace Section
The work of the Peace Section in the past
year related for the most part to the matter
of war finance and assistance with draft clas-
sification problems. The present provision
whereby conscientious objectors may purchase
civilian bonds in lieu of war bonds has not been
entirely satisfactory. An effort was made to
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prevail upon the Treasury Department to issue
a relief and rehabilitation bond. This effort
was not successful.
The Peace Section published a small pamph-
let, titled, “Compromise with War.” It was
distributed mostly to men in C.P.S. camps for
the purpose of elucidating the war position of -
the Christian Century magazine. A _ second
printing of 10,000 more copies of the book,
“Must Christians Fight?” was required.
The possibility of the United States pursu-
ing a policy of peacetime conscription was given
serious attention by the Peace Section. Con-
siderable thought was given to the implications
such a measure would have for Mennonites.
A special delegation was appointed to represent
our viewpoint and concerns to government of-
ficials. At the October meeting of the M.C.C.
a statement was adopted for presentation to
the President of the United States.
Mennonite Aid
This section has worked in the areas of
rehabilitation, particularly in regard to C.P.S.
men, and in colonization. Winfield Fretz was
secured to initiate this work and he began by
visiting several Canadian Mennonite communi-
ties where efforts at colonization had been
fairly recent. He also visited a number of
settlements in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
His observations from these field trips were
published in a booklet titled, “Mennonite Colon-
ization, Lessons from the Past for the Future,”
in which he attempts to point out factors which
contribute to success or failure in colonization
efforts. Later ‘in the year, Dr. Fretz also visited
the Mennonite settlements in Mexico, and an
account of this survey is about to be published.
To discover the size of the problem of re-
habilitating C.P.S. men, Dr. Fretz conducted
a general survey of men in Mennonite camps.
Work has also begun in the assembling of
information regarding Mennonite commu-
nities where additional members might settle
and suitable areas.where it would be possible
for new settlements to begin. Only a beginning
has been made in the work of this section and
much work remains to be done in the future.
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The Mennonite Central Committee continues
as the service agency of the American Men-
nonites in this time of worldwide war and
distress. Throughout the past year it has
enjoyed the cooperation of the constituent
groups, and as it continues to receive their
whole-hearted support it will endeavor to carry
the Christian spirit of love and peace to all
mankind.
Report of Emergency Relief Board
At the last session of the General Conference
the term of our dear Brother and long time
chairman, Rev. John Lichti, expired. Due to
ill health he asked to be released from all
duties on this board. Dr. H. A. Fast was elect-
ed to succeed Rev. Lichti. After conference the
Board was reorganized as follows: I. W. Bau-
man, Chairman; H. A. Fast, Vice Chairman;
P. H. Unruh, Treasurer; John C. Mueller,
Secretary, with Dr. Bauman and Rev. Unruh
as representatives on the M.C.C.
Famine on our mission fields in India and
China in 1941 created a great need. We have
tried to give relief by sending money direct to
our missionaries in both countries. The M.C.C.
also has carried on relief work in India in the
various Mennonite mission fields where starva-
tion existed. This work continues. The famine
in the Bengal district was almost beyond de-
scription. Much suffering has been relieved
through the united efforts with the M. C. C.
In South America much relief work is being
done through the M. C. C. by means of money,
clothing, and relief workers, who are willing
to give time and effort for the welfare of suf-
fering humanity. What the M. C. C. as our
agent, and we in cooperation with it, are doing
in South America, can also be said of relief
projects started in Puerto Rico, the Near East
or North Africa, Palestine, or the project
planned for Western China.
Since times are more prosperous, not so
many individual cases for relief have come to
the attention of the board.
While work in a number of places had to be
closed due to the war, other doors may open at
any time in the near future. May we be ready
to make use of such opportunities.
Aid to Dependents
Since the meeting of the several boards and
committees of the Conference this spring, we
have undertaken to make monthly payments
where necessary to the dependents of our C. P.
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S. men. We have set aside a specific sum of
our General Fund for this purpose and now
kindly ask our churches for extra contributions
to meet*these needs. ,
In cooperation with your Home Mission
Board and the Peace Committee, we have un-
dertaken to make a cartful study{of the re-
habilitation problem.
Since ‘the General Conference has -been post-
poned, we will have to feel our way step by
step under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
We solicit the continued prayers of the con-
/
ference churches that the Lord may bless his
work.
We were deeply moved when the Lord, in his
infinite wisdom, very suddenly took our dear
Brother Rev. P. H. Unruh out of our midst
to his heavenly reward. We are truly thank-
ful for the splendid choice that the officers of
the Conference made in Brother Walter H.
Temple as successor.
‘ In His Service,
The Emergency Relief Board
John C. Mueller, Sec., Freeman, S. D.
Our Publication Work
In the following paragraphs an attempt
shall be made to outline briefly the progress
and the needs of our General Conference publi-
cation work. .
The 100 Per Cent Church Subscription Plan
We are glad to report that during the past
few years good progress has been made with
the 100 Per Cent Church Subscription Plan.
The purpose of this plan is to place at least
one of the conference papers, Bundesbote or -
Mennonite, into every home represented on
the church roll of the churches adopting this
plan. To date twenty-nine churches have voted
to adopt this plan, and the total church sub-
scriptions now number 2,846. Of these 1,378
are new subscriptions. This means (a) that
all of these subscribers are receiving their
paper (or papers) for fifty cents less per year
than they otherwise would be paying; (b) that
a conference paper goes to 1,378 Mennonite
homes which, in all probability, would not be
receiving one if these twenty-nine churches had
not adopted the 100 Per Cent Plan. This is
a very worthwhile progress and is a big step
toward achieving the conference goal, namely,
‘““A Conference Paper in every:Conference Men-
nonite Home.” Other churches are considering
the adoption of the 100 Per Cent Plan and,
no doubt, within the next few years many more
Mennonite homes will be receiving one of our
conference papers on the basis of this plan.
Increase In Circulation
Good progress has also been made toward
increasing the circulation of our conference
publications in general. The German periodi-
cals, Bundesbote, Kinderbote, and S. S. Lek-
tionen, have practically held their own during
the past few years. This is encouraging in
view of the fact that the trend, both in our
homes and our churches, is more and more to-
ward the use of the English language. The
Bundesbote now has about 2,000 subscribers,
and about 9,500 copies of the S. S. Lektionen
are being used each quarter. The Kinderbote is
being printed in Canada and it also has a
considerable number of subscribers. The Junior
Messenger has increased its circle of readers
considerably during the past few years, and
the total circulation now is about 3,700. Many
Sunday Schools provide this helpful children’s
paper free for the families where there are
children of the Junior and Intermediate ages.
But the greatest gains have been made by
The Mennonite and the Mennonite Senior- Adult
Quarterly (formerly the Christian S. 8. Quar-
terly). The subscriptions to The Mennonite
have risen from 2,600 in 1941 to 5,200 at the
present time. The Mennonite Senior-Adult
Quarterly also has increased its circulation very
substantially. In 1941 about 13,400 copies were
used per quarter. By now this number has
risen to close to 17,000 copies per quarter, plus
about 1,000 leaflets. We are glad to say that
only a few Sunday Schools of our conference
are not using this quarterly. The reason
perhaps is that they have not yet become
acquainted with this outstanding conference
publication. We believe that if once they do
become acquainted with it they will be con-
vinced of its excellent qualities and will not
want to be without it.
The Mennonite Junior Quarterly, the newest
of our conference publications, is also being
received with favor by a large number of
Sunday Schools. It has been published only
since the beginning of 1944, and already more
than one hundred S.S. of our conference are
using it. Miss Erna Fast is the editor, and she
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has demonstrated that she is well qualified for
this work. She is succeeding nicely in adapting
the material not only to the children of the
Junior age but also to the needs of the Sunday
Schools of our conference. Any General Con-
ference S.S. which is not now using this quar-
terly will do well to give it a trial.
Our Hymnbooks
Splendid progress has also been made with
reference to the Mennonite Hymnary and the
Canadian Gesangbuch. To date over 19,000
copies of the Hymnary and about 8,000 copies of
the Gesangbuch have been sold. This rapid sale
of these books speaks well for their inherent
value. There still are a large number of
churches of our conference not using the Men-
nonite Hymnary. Many of these no doubt will
adopt this excellent hymnbook when new books
are needed. The Canadian Gesangbuch is also
proving very satisfactory, and the number of
churches adopting it is constantly increasing.
New editions of both the Hymnary and the Ges-
angbuch have just been completed, and the
books are available in any quantity for churches
or individuals wishing to purchase them. The
Mennonite Hymnary can be obtained through
the Mennonite Publication Office, Newton,
Kansas or the Mennonite Book Concern, Berne,
Indiana. The Canadian Gesangbuch is handled
in Canada by D. W. Friesen & Son, Altona,
Manitoba, and in the U.S. by the Mennonite
Publication Office, Newton, Kansas.
Need for Regular Contributions
Thus far we have dwelt only on the progress
which has been made with reference to our
conference publications. There is, however, one
serious problem confronting the Publication
Board, and that is the problem of financing the
publication work of our conference. Due to
war conditions prices of materials and labor
have risen sharply. As a result the operating
expenses are exceeding the income derived
from our periodicals. And this condition no
doubt will continue for some years to come.
It would not be advisable to advance the price
of our periodicals sufficiently to offset this
increased cost of production. Therefore the
only way to meet this situation is for the |
churches of our conference to support the
publication work through periodic voluntary
contributions. Most of us realize that the pub-
lication work of our conference ranks equally
in importance with missions, education, and
relief work. And this being the case, the
publication work deserves the financial support
by the churches of our conference as well as
these other worthy causes.
The Publication Board therefore urgently
appeals to all the churches of our conference
to take at least one offering a year for the
support of our publication work, and send it
to the General Conference Headquarters, New-
ton, Kansas, definitely marked “for publication
work.” During the period from 1941-44 only
about one-third of the conference churches |
contributed financially to the support of this
work. Therefore the Board earnestly requests
that this percentage be materially increased
during the difficult years immediately before
us. The work is the Lord’s, and may He give
us the joy to support all of our conference
activities with our prayers and our gifts so that
through these activities His Kingdom may be
built and extended and His blessed Name be
glorified.
For the Board of Publication
J. M. Suderman, Secretary.
Report of the Board of Education
The Board of Education proceeds on the
assumption that the Christian faith and life
can be brought to perfection only as Christian
people read and study the Word of God which
alone can give that inner strength sufficient
to meet the tasks and resist the evils of our
time. Conversion is a first and necessary step,
but after the new birth there must be a
continuous process of nurture: and growth in
the Christian life.
To this @nd, the Board has continued its
efforts to supply material for use in our Sun-
day Schools. For a number of years, the Senior-
Adult Quarterly has been published and is
apparently meeting with approval in nearly
all of our Sunday Schools. Last year Miss
Erna Fast was secured to write the Junior
Quarterly. In addition to this work, she has
been encouraged to produce a three months’ -
course for Juniors in the history and teachings
of the Mennonite Church.
At a meeting held last summer, the question
of the ordination of ministers was thoroughly
discussed and a standard of procedure as well
as qualifications for the ministry was adopted.
We believe that the high calling of the ministry
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should not be entered upon haphazardly or
with insufficient preparation. The action of
the Board was discussed at length and approved
at a meeting of the various Conference Boards
held at North Newton. The suggested standard
has been published in our church papers and
it is not necessary to repeat the same here.
Upon the suggestion of some of the men in
Civilian Public Service Camps, and with the
cooperation of other Conference Boards, an
institute for young people, especially those in
camps who are interested in doing full-time
religious work in the Mennonite Church after
the war is over, was organized. The training
and fellowship which the institute afforded
was helpful, and the plan is to make a similar
gathering an annual event.
In September, Dr. J. H. Langenwalter began
his service as full time educational secretary
of the Board, or minister-at-large. He will
keep in touch with our young people away
from home, visit churches, and conferences,
and render such assistance to our educational
work among our young people as seems neces-
sary and as is requested. It is the conviction
of many of our people that this work will
serve as a unifying factor among our various
educational efforts. We believe that the
strength of the church depends largely upon
the unity of purpose and aim that exists among
us.
The Board of Education is grateful to all
the churches which have had a share in its
work and given it support. That we may study
to show ourselves approved workmen in God’s
Vineyard and that we may grow in the grace
and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, shall
be our continued aim, and to this end the
prayers and interest of the churches are
solicited._Lester Hostetler, Secretary.
Young People’s Union
Another year! Have our activities been to
the honor and glory of God? Have we been
faithful in our witness and in our service for
Him? Have we been in His will, or have we
been going our own way? These are heart-
searching questions, yet we cannot avoid them,
though I fear in this report we are not able
to answer them as they should be answered.
Because of traveling limitations, some of the
work has been definitely handicapped.
On the other hand, we have much for which
to be praising the Lord. As reports are read
from the various districts, we are impressed
with the fact that in most cases the young
people’s work is progressing. Especially en-
couraging is the interest and support given to
retreats, for these can mean so much in the
lives of our young people.
The Canadian group has purchased the
Rosthern Experimental Farm for their youth
center. They had asked us for help in financ-
ing it, and thus far, through the cooperation
of the various districts, we have been able to
send them $660.07. We heartily thank each in-
dividual who has had a share in making this
gift possible. “God loveth a cheerful giver.”
Improvements have been made in our “Men-
nonite Youth” section of The Mennonite in an
endeavor to better serve the interests of youth.
We trust that young people are following up
the material printed and are taking advantage
of the space so kindly granted us by the
Board of Publication.
Another phase of our work which we feel
cannot be emphasized too much is that of the
Fellowship Prayer Calendar. A revised edition
has recently been printed. It is our aim to
have these distributed to each one who is in-
terested in praying for the work of the Lord
and His servants as they are laboring in His
vineyard. There is power in united prayer,
which is a real challenge to us.
May we ever be found faithful.
Dorothy Dietz, Sec.
The Unity Committee
The Church Unity Committee would like
to make the following prayer requests:
1. Let us thank God for the good relation-
ships that are developing between the various
Mennonite denominations as a result of our
cooperation in the C.P.S. and M.C.C. relief
work, and let us pray that the bond of love
may be strengthened.
2. Let us thank God for the fact that the
Central Conference and General Conference
have joined hands in doing mission work in
Africa, and let us pray that through this united
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effort many people in Africa may be saved.
Let us pray also that the two cooperating
Foreign Mission Boards may find the best
solution to all the problems that may come up
in this cooperative undertaking.
3. Let us thank God for the cordial relation-
ship that exists between the Central Conference
and the General Conference and let us pray
that-soon a way may be found for a closer
union in fellowship and organization.
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4. Let us thank God for the numerous Men-
nonite churches, such as for instance the large
Bergthal Congregation in Manitoba, which
are doing a great work for the Lord. Let us
pray that the day may soon come when they
will unite with the Conference. And let us pray
that we as a Conference may be truly worthy
of the confidence and trust which these con-
gregations place in us by seeking to unite with
us. — W. F. Unruh, Sec., Moundridge, Kansas
Our Foreign Mission Work
In spite of all hindrances to mission work in
this wartorn world to-day, the Lord’s work of
spreading the gospel is still going on, and in
many mission fields, such as our field in India,
the hearts are more open than ever.
Last year 395 souls could be gathered in
on this field, although there are not enough
missionaries on the field, and a number of
them were very sick for a while recently. But,
thank the Lord for answering the many prayers
for their recovery. :
Another reason for thanksgiving is that
within ten months nine missionaries could be
sent to the field, two to Montana and seven to
India. Two are just now on the way to the
coast to go to Africa, namely Bro. and Sister
G. B. Neufeld, our first missionaries to this
field. The last four who left for India are
still on the ocean. May we remember these
six especially in our prayers.
Five of our new missionaries are still
waiting for their visas to Colombia. May the
Lord soon open the door. Six are still interned
in China and India. Sister Mary J. Regier’s
mother has just died, but no quick message can
be sent her. May we all the more intercede
for her.
The China missionaries wait for the end
of the war, but all are busy, either at home
or in relief work. Bro. S. F. Pannabaker is on
the way to China as a relief worker, and
Sister Kuyf is about to follow soon via India,
where she may stop over a while to help in
relief there. In Bengal over 5,000,000 people
starved last summer within a few months. That
is more than the war has cost so far. Most
mission Boards are planning now for expansion
EE — ees
Statistics
(Although no reports, of course, hav
former year’s figures, because the worf
Missionaries
Native Helpers
Organized Churches
Baptized in 1943
Living Members
S. Schools
S. S. Enrollment
Day School Pupils
Main Stations
Outstations
Hospitals
Reg. Treatments
Inpatients
Lepers
Offerings
Square miles
Population
rrr rr rrrrrr irri rr rts eerie
6000( ?)
come from China recently, we give some of the
goes on, as far as we know.)
America
China
23*
187 125(7)
31 24
395 ?
3021 2300
49 35
2092 1224
991 ?
6 z
34 40
a = 1
16,564 “3
2007 ?
545
2000.00 ?
8000 4500
1,015,000 2,153,300
India
27
16,564
2007
2302.24
18500
3,172,955
302.24
4655
(*Two of these are still in China, 6 in Philip-pines, 15 in America.) —Rev. P. H. Richert, Sec.
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of their work after the war, and our Board
will very likely do the same, by starting a
special fund now for this purpose.
The Christian Missionary Alliance expects
to collect a fund of $1,000,000, the Lutheran
Church $2,500,000, the Methodist Church $25,-
000,000. Even in Germany the gifts for mis-
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sions increase during the war. May we all
pray about such expansion of mission work
after the war. For China we have already
started such a fund, which is now between
$10,000 and $12,000. We thank the Lord and
the churches for such faithful support. Below is
a summary of the statistics from all our fields.
Report of the Board of Home Missions
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hy-
pocrites! for ye pay tithe of mift and anice and
cummin, and have omitted the weightier mat-
ters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith:
these ought ye to have done, and not to leave
the other undone.” Matt. 23:23
Some people might think that Home Mis-
sion work was one and the same thing, war or
no war. In a way this is true, but we shall see
that in another way that war does bring about
changes in home mission work.
WORK IN THE STATES
The fields located at Smith Corner, E. Free-
dom, Pa.; Memorial Church, Altoona; First
Mennonite, Chicago; Mennonite Bible Mission,
Chicago; Bethel Church, Winton, California;
the work at Fredonia, Kansas; all show faith-
ful efforts have been put forth by the workers
and in most cases progress has been reported.
Miss Catherine Niswander, parish worker in
Philadelphia and helper in children’s work, has
been able to bring many a child into the Sun-
day School and church. Miss Elsa E. Grant-
land, is again on her field at Paint Rock,
North Carolina, after a serious operation dur-
ing the summer. We are grateful to God for her
recovery.
In two fields it was necessary to secure new
workers: Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Regier, Hen-
derson, Nebraska started work September 1, in
Calvary Church, Mechanics Grove, Pa., to take
the place of Rev. and Mrs. Sylvan S. Lehman,
who went to Lima, Ohio. In the Alberta Com-
munity Church, Portland, Oregon, Rev. Her-
man Wiebe, who was engaged for only one
year, desired to be given opportunity to enter
other work. The congregation and the Home
Mission Board jointly called Rev. and Mrs.
Clyde H. Dirks, Pastor of the First Mennonite
Church, Hutchinson, Kansas. Rev. Dirks ac-
cepted the call and in due time the change will
be made.
Mennonite Fellowships. Being convinced
that these fellowships have much to offer for
the good of our people, the Board encouraged
and in a small way supported the Brethren
Erwin Albrecht and John T. Neufeld in Chic-
ago, in establishing their enlarged Fellowship
that meets once every month in the “loop”
section for a worship service and fellowship.
In New York, Brother Paul F. Barkman, 235
E. 49th Street, New York, 17, N. Y., has been
engaged as Executive Secretary of the Fellow-
ship there. Mr. Barkman is a student at Bibli-
cal Seminary and gives only part time to this
Fellowship and speakers from various branch-
work. This is planned as an Inter-Mennonite
es are engaged to lead the discussions.
After preparing the ground for it for some
time, a Mennonite Fellowship was formally
started in Lancaster, Pa., on Sunday afternoon,
September 24. The Eastern District Home
Mission Committee as well as the Home Mis-
sion Board are interested and encouraging the
work in this place. It is hoped that in due time
Rev. Regier, might also take the direction of
this work in connection with Calgary.
As these lines are being written a new field
is opening up in Huron, South Dakota. The
Home Mission Comm ttee of the Northern Dis-
trict is directing the work here, but the Board
is giving some support.
WORK IN CANADA
Although not new, nor as colorful as some
new venture, but equally as important as any
phase of work in Canada is the itinerant work
as carried on faithfully by more than a score
of ministers. In this way many an isolated
group is visited and the Word is preached.
Catechetical instruction is given and baptism
and communion are administered as needed.
Special Workers. During the past year three
such workers were sent into Canadian Church-
es. In February and March Rev. J. F. Sawatz-
ky, Newton, Kansas, served as leader in many
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evangelistic campaigns in Saskatchewan
churches. During the summer, Rev. J. J.
Esau, Bluffton, Ohio, evangelist, continued his
systematic visitation of churches in Alberta
and British Columbia. In the past three sum-
mers Rev. Esau covered the churches adhering
to the General Conference and many others
from East. to West. Prof. W. H. Hohmann,
Bethel College Director of Music, conducted
choir singing in many Saskatchewan church
communities.
In the Swift Current section, Rev. V. E.
Nickel, Wymark, Saskatchewan, has been en-
gaged for full time work. Until this fall he
taught school and could give only part time
to church work. A mission effort by Mennonite
leaders in Alberta is being supported in Cal-
gary. :
The work in Vancouver, B. C., Saskatoon,
Sask., Winnipeg, Man., and Toronto, Ontario,
is being carried on with sincere efforts and
deep devotion.
The cooperating Boards: the Relief, Educa-
tion, and Home Mission Boards and the Edu-
cation Committee of the General Conference,
sought to contact every General Conference
young man in the various C. P. S. Camps,
Hospital Units, and Farm Units and to visit
every home church in the General Conference
in the United States. The program called for
constructive Bible Study based on Acts chap-
ters 1-10 with all the men in C. P. S. to help
them in their spiritual life and to deepen them
in their peace convictions, to assure them that
the General Conference is interested in helping
them now and after the war in getting ac-
climated in peace life again. The purpose for
the churches was to encourage them to be
tolerant and considerate one toward the other
in a helpful Christian way and to keep church-
es and the young men in C. P. S. thinking,
praying, and working together to build up a
strong and glorious church worthy of the One
who has called us.
—A. J. Neuenschwander, Sec.
Jn Wemoriam
Linford Foulke
Linford Foulke, son of Charles and Anna
(nee Heacock) was born in Richland Township,
Pa., December 21, 1872, and died November 28,
1943. He married Mary C. Gerhart in 1900. He
was ordained to the ministry at the Saucon
Mennonite Church in 1915 by Elder H. W.
Shelly. Brother Foulke served the Saucon
Church for seventeen years. In 1932 he was
received into the membership of the East
Swamp Mennonite Church.
Cc. H. Musselman
Mr. C. H. Musselman of Biglerville, Pa.
passed from this life on January 6, 1944. He
was a member of the Fairfield Mennonite
Church. He is survived by his wife and two
children: Mrs. Lovella Musselman, and Arnold
and Lester Musselman. He manifested his
interest in education by making substantial
gifts to colleges of the Mennonite Church, of
which the most outstanding is the Musselman
Library of Bluffton College.
Daniel Hubin
Elder Daniel Hubin, son of Daniel and
Maria Schrag Hubin, was born June 24, 1854, in
Neudor, Galicia, Austria. He was baptized at
the age of fourteen and accepted into the local
Mennonite church. In 1875 he was inducted
into the sanitary service of the Austrian army
and served two years, as required by law. He
and Elisabeth Rupp, daughter of Philip and
Katharina Rupp, were married in 1879. In
1882 the family came to Mountain Lake, Min-
nesota, where he found work. In 1883 he took
up a homestead in Rosehill Township. He. was
elected as minister in 1885 and ordained to the
ministry by Rev. Daniel Brubacher, Butterfield.
He served the New-Home Mennonite Church,
incorporated in 1895, for twenty-six years as
minister and Elder. The family sold the farm
in 1911 and moved to Butterfield, where he
lived since. He became a member of the Men-
nonite church here and served it as minister
for several years. The couple celebrated its
sixty-fifth wedding anniversary in 1944. He
passed away on January 25. Children who
survive are: Mrs. Ed Linscheid, Oregon; Mrs.
Ed Rupp, Butterfield! John, Maynard, Min-
nesota; Mrs. Lester Miller, Lorain, North Da-
kota; Otto, Rochester Minnesota; Edwin Deer-
wood, and Lydia at home.
Adam Ratzlaff
Adam Ratzlaff, son of Benjamin and Eva
THE MENNONITE YEARBOOK, 1945 25
Ratzlaff, was born October 10, 1867, at Anton-
ofka, Russian-Poland. In 1874 the family
migrated to Jerusalem to await there the
coming of Christ and the Millenium. War
broke out between Turkey and Russia, and the
family had to stay in Turkey for seven years.
The family migrated to America, in 1880,
settling near Durham, Kansas. He attended
grade school for three months. In 1884 he
was baptized by Rev. Benjamin Schmidt of
the Holdeman Church. He married Sarah
Schroeder from Hillsboro, Kansas, in 1892. In
1893 he took part in the run for free homesteads
in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma. He secur-
ed a farm south of Hunnewell, Kansas. Then
he purchased a quarter section near Fairview,
Oklahoma. Later he purchased a farm near
Orienta, where they lived until seven years ago,
when because of his health, they moved to
Fairview. His first wife died in 1908. To
this union six sons and three daughters had
been born. Later he married Bena Frantz of
Orienta. Five daughters and three sons were
born to this union. All children are-living. In
1905 he became a member of the Saron Men-
nonite Church, near Orienta. Here he taught
in the Sunday School and for fifteen years was
Sunday School superintendent. Materially
blest, he was able to bequeath a farm to each
child and have some land left to rent out. He
also owned property in Fairview, among this a
hospital building and a bank building. He was a
member of many committees and boards. He
was bank president and also a member of the
Board of Directors of Bethel College. He gave
liberally for the work of God’s Kingdom. He
gave large sums to the Oklahoma Bible Acad-
emy, of whose board of directors he was
president for many years. He passed away
February 4, 1944.
Jacob G. Baergen
Rev. Jacob G. Baergen, son of Gerhard E.
and Helena Becker Baergen, was born January
23, 1874, in Hamberg, South Russia. In 1877
he migrated to Kansas with his parents. They
settled eight miles north of Burrton. In 1892
he was baptized by Elder Dietrich Gaeddert
and received into the membership of the Hoff-
nungsau Church. He and Elisabeth Ediger
were united in marriage in 1900. He then be-
came a member of the Hebron Church. Several
years later they settled near Corn, Oklahoma.
Here they joined the Bergthal Church in 1909.
In February, 1911, he was called as evangelist
and in May, 1911, as minister. He was ordained
in August of that year by Elder Johann Flam-
ing. He served until 1920 when he had to give
up his calling because of ill health. He also
served as teacher for several years. He was
educated in Oklahoma, in Harvey County, Kan-
sas, in the Halstead Preparatory School, in
Bethel College, and in McPherson College. He
taught in the Corn Valley school in Oklahoma.
For some time he and his wife were in the old
people’s home in Newton. The last two years
he spent with his children. He passed away
February 4, 1944. Children who survive are:
David, Clinton, Oklahoma; John, Weatherford;
Mrs. Henry Nickel, Clinton; Mrs. Jake Toews,
Kremlin; Ernst, Cordell; Mrs. Harry Hiebert,
Cordell; Jacob, Oklahoma City. One brother,
Peter G. Baergen, Corn, and one sister, Mrs.
J. H. Ediger, Corn, also survive him.
Henry T. Reimer
Henry T. Reimer was born February 27,
1881, in Hochfeld, Russia. He came to America
with his parents, Abram and Margaret Reimer
in 1883 and settledon a farm west of Beatrice.
In the year of 1899 he was baptized upon his
confession of faith by Elder Gerhard Penner.
He began his education in the parochial school
and later attended Bethel College. He then
taught school in Kansas one year, after which
he was employed by the Elbing Lumber Co.,
Elbing, Kansas, and later by the John H. von
Steen Lumber Co., Beatrice, Nebraska. He then
had the opportunity of purchasing his own
business in Holmesville, Nebraska, which he
conducted until his death.
In October, 1907, he was married to Martha
Rev. H. T. Reimer
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von Steen. After one and one-half years of
married life, death spearated them. On Novem-
ber 30, 1911, he was united in marriage to Jus-
tina Claassen of Whitewater, Kansas. This
union was blessed with three sons and one
daughter, the daughter passing away in infancy.
In the year 1923 he was elected to serve as
minister in his home church, which he faithful-
ly served in this capacity as long as his health
permitted. He was deeply concerned about the
welfare of the congregation, especially in the
salvation of the young people, and many a
prayer has gone up to the throne of Grace in
their behalf.
In 1936 they were privileged to celebrate
their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
He became seriously ill in 1937, but through
the grace of God he recovered and enjoyed
fair health until the fall of 1942, when he again
became ill. During this period of illness his
earthly body gradually weakened till the morn-
ing on February 29, 1944, when the Lord
called his servant home. He reached the age
of sixty-three years and two days.
He often referred gratefully to the kind at-
tention he received from the sisters and nurses
of the Mennonite Hospital. j
His passing away is deeply felt by his be-
reaved wife, three sons, Henry T. Jr., Fort Col-
lins, Colorado; Donald, Columbus; and Edgar
Holmesville, three daughters-in-law, two grand-
children, three brothers, three sisters, relatives
and many friends.
Mrs. S. S. Haury
Susie Lydia Hirschler was born near Tren-
ton, Illinois, on June 16, 1861, one of seven
sisters and three brothers—children of Rev.
Daniel Hirschler and Haria Schmidt Hirsch-
ler who had emigrated to the United States
in 1856.
Her father being one on the ministers of the
Mennonite church in Summerfield, Illinois,
she grew up in the atmosphere of a Christian
home. Early in life she affiliated herself with
the church of her parents, being baptized by
Rev. Christian Krehbiel on May 16, 1875.
The deceased received: her early education in
Summerfield, one of her teachers being Rev.
David Goerz, the founder of Bethel College.
At the age of fifteen, her father placed her in
the Moravian Girls Academy at Hope, Indiana,
where she completed the course at the end of
three years.
On November 20, 1879, she was married to
Samuel S. Haury—then missionary candidate
of the General Conference of Mennonites—in
the Summerfield church by the elder, Rev.
Christian Krehbiel, during a session of the Gen-
eral Conference, and the couple was ordained as
the first missionaries to be sent out by this
organization.
The field of labor selected by the mission
board after a longer period of search lay among
the Arapahoe Indians in the Indian Territory
and the young couple took their wedding trip
from Halstead, Kansas, to their new field of
work in a covered wagon. They arrived at
Darlington, Indian Territory on May 18, 1880.
Under great difficulties the first mission -
buildihg was erected, which was to serve both
as a home and a school for Indian Arapahoe
children. By September, 1881, the school was
opened with seventeen pupils who were living
in the home. But already on February 19, 1882,
the building was destroyed by fire, causing the
suffocation of Carl, the nine and one-half-
month-old son of the Haurys, as well as that
of three half-breed children.
A new building was again erected at Dar-
lington, and a second station opened at Can-
tonment, sixty-five miles away, in an aban-
doned military outpost which had been turned
over to our mission board by the U. S. govern-
ment. The Haurys took over the new station in
February, 1883.
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In 1887 Rev. and Mrs. Haury left the mission
field and moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where
Rev. Haury entered the St. Louis medical
school, completing his course in the spring of
1889. In the fall of that year, Dr. Haury with
his family located at Moundridge, Kansas,
where he practiced medicine until 1894 when
he moved to Newton. When Dr. Haury retired
from active practice in 1913 the family moved
to Upland, California. Here Dr. Haury passed
away on May 19, 1929.
During this entire period, both Dr. and Mrs.
Haury were active in church work, having af-
filiated themselves with the West Zion Caurch
in Moundridge, Kansas, and the First Menno-
nite Church of Newton, Kansas, and that at
Upland, California.
In the First Mennonite Church of Newton
Mrs. Haury continuously had a Sunday School
class of young women and participated in the
work of the Christian Endeavor and the Wo-
mens Missionary Society. She was instrumental
in the organization of the first church choir
under Mr. J. E. Ruth and became its director
when Mr. Ruth and his family moved to Okla-
homa.
Mrs. Haury was especially active in the ex-
pansion of the work of the women’s missionary
societies of the General Conference. It early
became the established custom to turn over
one evening at each General Conference session
to the women’s societies. For a period of years
she was chairman of their program committee
and presided at these evening meetings. When
the societies organized at the Reedley confer-
ence in 1917, she was elected the first presi-
dent of the Women’s Missionary Association
and the chairman of the executive committee.
This office she retained until she retired at the
General Conference meeting at Bluffton, Ohio,
in 1933. She remained its honorary president
until her passing.
In August, 1932, Mrs. Haury went to Gran-
ville, Ohio where she made her home with her
daughter Sue until August 20, 1942, when she
entered the Bethel Home for the Aged. After a
brief illness she fell asleep on Sunday, March
12, 1944, at 11:17 A. M. and her spirit was re-
leased to enter the presence of Him in whom
she had believed and to whom she had dedi-
cated her life. She reached the age of eighty-
two years, eight months, and twenty six-days.
Of seven children born to Dr. and Mrs.
Haury, two sons, Carl and Paul, died as in-
fants on the mission field in Indian Territory.
A third son, T. Walter, passed away at Newton,
Kansas, December 13, 1903, at the age of al-
most eighteen and one-half years.
Surviving their mother are four>daughters,
Dora, Mrs. Jacob H. Quiring of New York
City; Elsa of Wichita, Kansas; Sue of Gran-
ville, Ohio; and Helen, Mrs. L. C. Boynton of
Rochester, New York. Besides these, one son-
in-law, five grandchildren, many nieces, nep-
hews, and friends remain to cherish the mem-
ory of one who was loved and esteemed while
sojourning among them.
A life rich in service has come to an end. It
can truly be said of her that she did what she
could. “Blessed are the dead which die in the
Lord . . . yea, saith the Spirit, that they may
rest from their labours; and their works do
follow them.” (Rev. 14:13)
Rev. Paul Mouttet
Paul Mouttet was born on December 20,
1864, in Berne Canton, Switzerland, and passed
to his eternal reward on the morning of April
24. According to the doctor’s pronouncement,
death was caused by a stroke.
Our father was one of the four children of
Uebert and Ursuela Lantz Mouttet. With the
early death of his father it became necessary
for him to help the sisters to provide for the
daily sustenance of the family. His mother
died when he was fifteen years of age; his three
sisters also have preceded him in death.
At the age of seventeen he migrated to
America with a friend and landed in New York
at about Easter time in 1881, From there he
traveled by train to Berne, Indiana, where he
had some acquaintances. Here he worked as a
day laborer for about three years. It was during
this time that he received his catechetical in-
struction and was baptized upon the profession
of his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as his
Saviour.
In 1885 a call came for a farm laborer in
the mission field of the General Conference at
Cantonment, then Indian Territory in Okla-
homa. So father volunteered for this work.
After he had labored there under considerable
difficulties for several years, he pursued his
education at Halstead Seminary for a period of
three years.
On November 7, 1890, he was united in the
bonds of holy matrimony to Katherin Riesen.
Together they returned to their previous field
of service. After serving here for some time,
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they settled on ta farm in Marion county,
Kansas. In this community father and mother
shared joys and sorrows for the remainder of
their life.
Having made their home in this community,
father transferred membership from the Berne
church to the Bruderthal church where he has
remained an active and faithful member the
rest of his life. He showed his interest in the
church, the Sunday School, and the C. E.
through his helping hand. He was one of the
founders of the C. E- Jugenderbanung in 1900
and served in the program committee and
later as leader for years. On January 22, 1911,
father was elected as an evangelist and was or-
dained to this office on February 26, 1911. In
this position he served his Lord for a period
of twent-five years. From 1926-1930 he served
as leader of the church in the absence of an
elder. »
The home was blessed with four children,
three sons and one daughter. Father and
mother were blessed in their union for over for-
ty-five years. Mother preceded father in death
on: February 21, 1936. Since mother’s home-go-
ing, father spent many lonely hours, and feeling
that his work here was done, yearned to meet
his Saviour whom he seryed and loved. He
reached the age of seventy-nine years, four
months and four days.
Sister Frieda
(On August 7, 1944, Sister Frieda Kaufman
went to her Father in Heaven. The funeral was
held in the First Mennonite Church, Newton,
on August 10. Below we reprint her life story as
written by Sister Lena Mae and as it appeared
in the February, 1944, issue of In the Service
of the King. — Editor)
Sister Frieda Kaufman was born near Basle,
Switzerland, in the Wiesen valley which is a
gateway to the Black Forest region of Ger-
many. She is the daughter of John Kaufman
and his wife nee Marie Egle. The Kaufmans
are an old Swiss family of Grindewald in the
Bernese Alps who moved to the vicinty near
Basle many years ago, In these beautiful sur-
roundings she spent the first eight years of
her life. :
In July, 1892, the parents and three daugh-
ters, Frieda being the youngest, came to Hal-
stead, Kansas. Here Frieda attended the public
schools with Miss Nellie H. Huggett, now Mrs.
M. A. Penny of Grant’s Pass, Oregon, as
her first teacher. Among her later teachers
were such well-known leaders as J. W. Kliewer,
H. O. Kruse, and C. E. Krehbiel. God had His
hand in shaping the interest and desires of
His handmaiden. When she volunteered for
deaconess work in 1900, she was accepted and
advised to attend Bethel College which she did
for two years. Here again, faithful servarits
of God such as C. H. Wedel, H. O. Kruse, G.
A. Haury, and P. H. Richert had a part in
molding her character.
Deaconesses are not all nurses, but our ap-
plicant had nursing in mind. After preliminary
arrangements were completed, Frieda Kauf-
man was enrolled in the Deaconess hospital in
Cincinnati, Ohio, August 9, 1902, for a two
year’s course in nursing. On November 14
of the same year, she received her deaconess
garb and has since been known as Sister
Frieda.
Sister Frieda graduated on August 9, 1904,
and before the Bethel Deaconess hospital was
built, she had four years of valuable experi-
ence as a pioneer private duty nurse in New-
ton and surrounding communities. This work
opened the way for her into homes and hearts
of the rich and poor in all walks of life. She
made many friends, and her life was enriched
in a way that would have been impossible had
the hospital position been ready for her when
she came home from Cincinnati. During these
years, she had charge of many household duties
as well as the nursing responsibilities, and in-
Sister Frieda
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stead of working eight hours a day, she worked
eighteen to twenty hours. But strenuous as
private duty nursing was our Sister enjoyed it
for she possessed that which is so essential for
for such service—Love—love of God, love of
fellow-man and love of work. She realized that
there is no joy in life to compare to the joy
of being able to give help in time of distress
and need. It has often been said that we get
out of life what we put into it, and that pro-
bably explains why Sister Frieda enjoys life so
much. Were we to ask here then or now, she
would say that the price paid in service that
she could render was not too great.
During this term of four years, the Bethel
Deaconess Home and Hospital Society, which
-was organized in 1903, bought a plot of ground
and erected the hospital building. On June 11
1908, the building was dedicated to the Lord
to be used in His service. On the same day,
Sister Frieda, Sister Catherine, and Sister Ida
were ordained and installed into full-time ser-
vice in the Bethel Deaconess hospital. For
thirty-five years (June 11, 1908-June 11, 1943)
Sister Frieda has served as sister-in-charge of
our institution. She also was superintendent of
the hospital from 1908 to 1929 and again from
1932 to 1938. Since September 1, 1938, Mr. H.
J. Andres has relieved her of the responsibility
of hospital administration.
Besides directing the work of the hospital
here at home, Sister Frieda gave much time,
thought, and direction to the Mountain Lake
hospital and home for aged in their organiza-
tion, growth, and development during the years
of 1911 to 1930. Sister Frieda also solicited
funds and planned the construction and meth-
od of operation of the Bethel home for aged
of Newton, which was opened May 9, 1926.
In all her endeavors, we see her as a woman
of keen insight and vision; but above all,
we shall always think of her as a builder—a
builder of houses and of lives. And we shall
always treasure that which she has given us
in print. We believe that there is much more
in store for us. Many have enjoyed her “Plau-
dereien.” Her gift of presenting experiences in
such a picturesque way gives us joy as well as
encouragement and help. And in her “Auf
Wanderwegen”, we could all travel to Europe
and enjoy with her that which she enjoyed.
Truly her life has been a rich one! How often
we have heard her use the words of the Psalm-
ist: “My lines have fallen unto me in pleasant
places!” Ps. 16:6.
Sister Frieda has been a real mother to us in
stimulating’ and guiding the growth and devel-
opment of the sisterhood and in planning the
activities of our entire household. We can ap-
preciate them. God’s grace is always suffici-
ent, and He has given her the talents, the love,
the understanding of people, the ability to win
their confidence, as well as the grace and wis-
dom to guide the lives of others. Many strang-
ers, even salesmen who came to see Sister
Frieda on business, have returned to tell us
that they appreciated the kindness and the help
that they received from her.
What her help and encouragement means to
our workers, students, and sisters will only be
revealed when all things are made known. In
our humble way, we would offer our appreci-
ation and gratitude to God and to our Sister.
We would be faithful in rendering such ser-
vice that will portray her ideal unto others.
May thé joy and blessing of the Lord be hers
continually and may God and His love live on
in the lives of all of us!
Sister Lena Mae Smith
Rev. Franz Albrecht
Franz Albrecht, son of Heinrich und Helena,
nee, Penner, Albrecht, was bcrn on the 10th
of January, 1876, in the village of Lindenau,
near Saratov, Russia. In 1881 the Albrecht
family joined others in a migrat‘on into South-
western Asia. After about three years they
came to America, arriving at Beatrice, Ne-
braska, in September of 1884, locating on a
farm northwest of tewn. He received his ele-
mentary education in the paraochial school
under the direction of Rev. J. K. Penner.
Through the Christian influence of the home,
the school, and the church, he was led to accept
Jesus Christ as his own personal Saviour. He
was baptized upon the confession of his faith
on May 13, 1894, by Elder Gerhard Penner
and joined the membership of the Mennonite
Church. In 1897, with his parents, he moved to
a farm which, after the death of his father,
became his own. Feeling the need for further
Christian training, he attended Bethel College
from 1903 to 1905. In March, 1904, he was
elected as a minister of the church and ordain-
ed in June of the same year. He was married
to Marie Wiebe on November 5, 1908. This
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union was blessed with three daughters. In
1920 he was elected Elder of the congrega-
tion, and was ordained and installed by Elder
Gerhard Penner in April of the same year. In
this capacity he served faithfully for twenty
years. About four years ago, when his health
began to fail, he gradually withdrew from act-
ive service, though continuing his personal in-
terest in, and intercession for, the various
phases of our church work. The congregation
has enjoyed occasional written messages of
enccuragement. He attended worship services
whenever his condition permitted it and was
present on the last Lord’s Day preceding his
decease. On Thursday, December 21, at about
1:15 P. M., he was suddenly called to higher
service. He attained the age of sivty-eight
years, eleven months, and eleven days. He
leaves to mourn his departure his faithful com-
panion, three daughters, one brother, one sis-
ter, and many relatives and friends. In He-
brews 13 we are admonished to “remember
them that had the rule over you, men that
spake unto you the Word of God; and con-
sidering the manner of their life, imitate their
faith ... Now the God of peace who brught
again from the dead the great shepherd of the
sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant,
even our Lord Jesus, make you perfect in every
good thing to do his will, working in us that
which is well pleasing in his sight, through
Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever
and ever. Amen.”
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Rev. Franz Albrecht
Rev. Abraham W. Froese
Abraham W. Froese, son of Abraham and
Ida Froese, was born on March 11, 1879, at
Council Grove, Kansas. Later he with his
parents, moved to Hillsboro, Kansas. Then
in 1890 his parents moved to Abilene, Texas,
and form there.in 1893 moved to northeast of
Cordell.
In his early youth he gave his heart to the
Lord and accepted Him as his personal Sav-
iour. On July 4, 1897, he was baptized by
Elder Jacob Toews and received into the mem-
bership of the Sichar Church.
On April 16, 1903, he was united with Marie
Thiessen in holy matrimony. This home was
blessed with three daughters and one son.
On July 19, 1908, he was ordained as a
minister of the gospel by Rev. H. R. Voth in
the Sichar Church.
In 1912, he with his family moved to Tologa,
where he served the Kidron Church for three
years.
In 1915 he accepted the call from the Green-
field Church at Carnegie, Oklahoma, and la-
ter moved there.
On November 13,- 1927, he was ordained as
elder by Rev. P. H. Unruh.
On June 9, 1928, it pleased the Lord to take
his beloved wife to her reward in Glory. For
the next five years he made his home with his
children.
On November 19, 1933, he was united in
marriage to Mrs. Marie Frey. They then mov-
ed to Cordell, Oklahoma. However, he still
served as a minister in the Greenfield Church
for a few years. Then during his last few years,
he again served the Kidron Church at Tologa,
while living at Cordell.
Although in failing health it was still his
greatest joy to serve his Lord and Master.
He became ill on November 18, 1944, and
passed away very suddenly on November 25,
1944.
He leaves to mourn his departure his dear
wife, three daughters, Mrs. Emma Unruh and
Mrs. Ida Nightingale of Carnegie, O:lahoma;
Mrs. Bertha Unruh of Hillsdale, O:lahoma;
one son, David Froese of Carnegie, Oklahoma;
and one step-daphter Hilda of Cordell.
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History of the Deer Creek Mennonite Church
(Continued from page 10)
ill health soon overtook him, and he was never
able to serve the congregation in the capacity
as a pastor.
The following pastors have served the con-
gregation. As ill health prevented Bro. Goebel
from serving as pastor, Rev. Manassas Moyer
and family moved here from Fortuna, Mis-
souri, and Rev. Moyer served as pastor until
his. sudden death on December 7, 1903.
On February 14, 1904, brother J. C. Peters.
was called from the congregation to serve
as evangelist and was ordained to this office
by Rev. H. R. Voth. The following year the
congregation elected him to serve as pastor and
was ordained to this office by Rev. Voth cn
July 30, 1905. Rev. Peters served as pastor
until July, 1908, when he accepted a call to a
work in Canada.
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The Church Building
In July 1908 Brother J. F. Moyer was called
as evangelist from the congregation and was
installed as evangelist by Rev. Peters. On
September 5, 1909, Rev. Moyer was ordained
as pastor by Rev. H. R. Voth and served as
resident pastor until the fall of 1911 when he
left to attend: Bethel College. He continued to
serve the congregation from time to time until
the spring of 1912 when he resigned. ,
The congregation extended a call to Rev.
John Lichti of Lucein, Oklahoma. On Septem-
ber 29, 1912, Rev. Lichti took up the duties
as pastor of the congregation and served
until August, 1920, when he resigned to be-
come pastor of the Medford Mennonite Church.
For an interval of a year and four months
the church had no resident pastor and was
served by several visiting pastors.
On December 4, 1921, a call was extended to
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Rev. Gerhard Friesen. He accepted the call
and began to minister as pastor in March, 1922.
In August, 1927, he resigned to take up further
study in Witmarsum Seminary.
A call was then extended to Rev. A. S.
Bechtel of Summerfield, Illinois, who took up
the pastoral work here on April 29, 1928, and
served until March 14, 1937, when he resigned
to accept the call to the Mennonite church at
Hanston, Kansas.
The present pastor began to serve here on
September 5, 1937.
The congregation has never had a rapid
growth, but rather a continual one. In the
course of years since its beginning a number
of families have moved here and moved away
again. The present membership is 115.
The church has an active Sunday School;
Christian Endeavor Society which meets every
other Sunday evening; Womens’ Mission So-
ciety which meets the first Thursday of every
month except in July and August and a church
board which meets once every quarter.
Much interest has always been shown in for-
eign and home mission work. Two from the
congregation have gone to the foreign mission
field, namely Herbert Dester and Mrs. E. G.
Kaufman, formerly Hazel Dester. Three have
been called as pastors, namely Christian Goe-
bel, J. C. Peters, and J. F. Moyer.
Throughout the years since the organiza-
tion of the church a keen interest has always
been shown in Christian education, and a
large number of the young people have at-
tended schools of our own denomination, es-
pecially Bethel Academy and Bethel College.
Looking ahead into the future years may
God continue to bless this congregation, and
may those who worship here find that inner
peace and joy in Christ and heed His words
found in Matthew 16:24. “If any man will
come after me, let him deny himself, and take
up his cross, and follow me.” — Herbert E.
Miller, Pastor.
History of the First Mennonite Church,
Hillsboro,
In 1879 a town given the name, Hillsboro,
was founded. It seemed to have a slow healthy
growth from the very beginning, due to the fact
that it was located in the midst of a large
farming community.
Many of the early settlers were Mennonites.
When the town was started a number of these
families located in the town itself and others
had already located in the immediate vicinity.
Very soon it became apparent that the town
itself would be the logical place for the estab-
lishing, of a Mennonite church.
Due to the fact that the settlers were for the
most part not blessed with much material
wealth and so not financially able to remuner-
ate a minister, it was brought to the attention
of the Home Mission Board. The board then
asked Rev. J. S. Hirshler of Franklin, Iowa, to
undertake the task of organizing a church at
this place.
In 1884 Rev. Hirschler undertook the difficult
Kansas
task of bringing together the various Mennonite
families in the town and the immediate vicini- |
ty, people who had come from Russia, South
Russia, and Poland.
With much painstaking labor and under
God’s guiding spirit this was accomplished in
so far that in 1885 a congregation was organiz-
ed with thrity-nine charter members.
Christian Ramseyer, who was one of the first
inhabitants of Hillsboro, and from the very be-
ginning was much interested in organizing a
church, was a willing worker and a good as-
sistant to Rev. Hirshler. Mr. Ramseyer was a
store-keeper and postmaster at the time.
Later he was elected as assistant pastor of
the new congregation and served faithfully in
his quiet and unassuming way.
In 1884 this little group of Mennonites, and
others interested met in the two-story, two-
roomed stone school house standing on the
site of the modern structure of today. However,
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soon this proved inadequate to accommodate
the various S. S. classes; so a hall above the
building, which served as bank at the time,
was rented and meetings were held there.
The congregation grew slowly and soon felt
the need of a church building. In 1886 a build-
ing was erected on the present site and dedicat-
ed to the Lord’s service on October 17 of that
same year.
The following Sunday, were baptismal ser-
vices at which the following were baptized:
Heinrich F, Duerksen, Daniel F. Jantzen,
Isaac Penner, Helena Friesen, and Elizabeth
Gaeddert.
The congregation was officially represented
at the Kansas Conference (which was later
called the Western District Conference) in 1885
by F. Jantzen and Christian Ramseyer as dele-
gates with two votes.
Two years later the church was listed as
being represented at the eleventh session of the
The Church Building
General Conference.
After the departure of Rev. Ramseyer in
1897, H. D. Penner was elected as assistant
pastor. He was ordained by Rev. Hirshler on
May 30, 1897 this faithful worker serving as as-
sistant till 1908.
After Rev. Hirshler resigned in 1907, H. D.
Penner was ordained as elder and served the
congregation as such until 1913. Rev. Penner
came from Bethel College. In order to make a
living for his family while serving the con-
gregation and being much interested in Chris-
tian education for young people he established
the “Hillsboro Preparatory School” and con-
ducted it faithfully and successfully from 1897
till the time of his departure in 1913.
On August 25, 1907, H. P. Peters was elect-
ed as evangelist.
The church building erected in 1886 be-
came too small in the course of time so in
1892 it was enlarged. In 1911 it was again en-
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larged considerably and rededicated on October
29, of that year.
Rev. J. H. Epp came to Hillsboro with his
family in 1913, to teach in the Preparatory
School and was subsequently called to the
pastorate of the church. He was ordained as
elder the following year.
Rev. Peters tendered his resignation in a few
years, and D. B. Hess, a teacher in the public
school at the time, assisted in the work as
evangelist. He was ordained in 1914. After two
years of service he accepted a call from the
Mennonite church at Menno, Washington, and
severed his connection with the church here.
On December 14, 1916, J. D. Jantzen was
elected assistant pastor, and ordained on Jan-
uary 17, 1917.
Rev. J. H. Epp later discontinued his school
work to devote more time to his pastorate du-
ties of the evergrowing congregation.
The church building was enlarged for the
third time in 1928.
On the 50th anniversary in 1934 there were
300 on the membership roll. Many members
had passed on to their reward and others were
transferred to ther congregations as they
moved away to other localities. Besides the
congregation, many young men and women of
outlying localities and students have worshiped
here from Sunday to Sunday. Who can esti-
mate the seed sown by the various leaders of
the congregation and the harvest garnered in?
Rev. and Mrs. Epp gave themselves to their
charge to the best of their ability. Sister Epp
was at the head of the Senior Mothers’ Mission
Society throughout the period of their service
here. Her long service as Sunday School
teacher will continue as blessed memories to
those in her class. That there were joys and
blessings they themselves would gladly testify:
that there were disappointments and discour-
agements they would frankly admit.
In February of 1941 their period of service
terminated, and at present Rev. Epp is serv-
ing the Mennonite Church of Kingman, Kans.
For a petiod of nineteen months the church
was without a standing pastor; the congrega-
tion became genuinely aware of the value of
its church school, Bethel College, as our school
served us most generously through its supply
pastors and others on the faculty. Rev. Hos-
tetler minstered to us for a period of six
months. Among others who served were: Dr.
Henry Fast, Wesley Ewert, Ed Stucky, and
P. S. Goertz.
That a church can not long be without a
resident minister and escape harm became in-
creasingly evident as this nineteen month
period progressed. That a suitable shepherd
might be found became the growing concern
and the ever recurring subject of prayer within
the congregation, As God always answers his
children when they call, so, He also answered
us. For in September 1942, Rev. H. T. Unruh
of the Bluffton College Church of Bluffton,
Ohio, came to be our leader. Alongside the need
of a pastor there was the need of a parsonage.
God here too put an end to His children’s
anxiety when a good sister of the church gave
a generous sum, and with an additional sum
by the membership the H. M. Pankratz resi-
dence on South Main was purchased as a
parsonage.
The church has also been called upon to
pass through times of great sadness. This was
experienced in the tragic death of two influen-
tial workers. In 1941 Rev. J. D. Jantzen was sud-
denly called to his reward through an accident.
He had been a faithful assistant to Rev. Epp
from his ordination in 1917 till his death. In
September of the following year the church
lost. one of its young men, Ernest Hiebert
through drowning. While making an attempt
to save the lives of two of his pupils, “Ernie”
gave his own. The church library invites the
readers of Christian literature to read the books
dedicated to the memory of these two.
The S. S. functions under two departments,
the junior and senior division, with eighteen
classes and an approximate enrollment of 300.
Recently our pastor has opened a course in
pre-church membership for all young people
of high school age.
Five mission societies have functioned con-
tinuously the last year. These have played a
major roll in the life of the church,
‘The Christian endeavor societies have had
their place also in the church program. There
are three groups meeting twice a month, the
Seniors, Intermediates and Juniors. An addi-
tional activity is the Union Meetings during
the summer months. The churches uniting have
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been the neighboring Conference churches and
the Evangelical church of this city. The choir
has made a definite contribution to our worship
serving every Sunday morning.
Week-day religious instruction has been
sponsored jointly by the churches within the
city. Last summer the church carried on its
own vacation Bible school, the enrollment be-
ing 70 with a teaching staff of six.
During the last two years mid-week Bible
classes one for children and another for adults
have received instruction. The weekly prayer
meeting has always continued.
Eighty-nine volumes have been added to the
library during the last few years, and with
that has come a new interest in reading. In
addition, the church provides all its homes
with all Conference papers.
During the last ten years that followed our
50th anniversary our church membership was
increased 101 by baptism and 70 by letter. At
the same time there was a decrease of 136 by
letter and death. Thus at present our member-
ship stands at 335.
Of all thirty-nine charter members all have
been called to their reward but one, Mrs.
Anna (Penner) Bartel. She is still a faithful
worshipper in our congregation. Her quiet,
sweet and trusting way is a testimony of God’s
love and sustaining power.
From the church membership 16 men have
been called as deacons since its beginning. Nine
women have gone out as graduate nurses and
five are now in training. In the mission field
the church has been represented by one mem-
ber, Mrs. G. A. Linchied, now residing in
Newton, Kansas. Forty-three of our young
men have been called into government service.
Of this number six are C. O’s, five are non-
combatants and thirty-two are in regular mil-
itary service. These boys are not all church
members, a few are sons of members and
therefore considered spiritual charges of the
church.
WORKERS ORDAINED DECEMEBER 26,
1943 TO NOVEMBER 17, 1944
Peter W. Goering, Landoline Amstutz, Ver-
ney Unruh, Homer Sperling, Leonard C. Hanes,
Jacob Ens, Ellis Graber, Benjamin Rahn, El-
bert E. Koontz, Henry W. Goossen, George B.
Neufeld, Laverne Rutschman, Orlo Kaufman,
Roland Goering, Mary Becker, Harley J.
Stucky, Alfred Regier, John W. Boehr, Elinor
Schmidt, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Stucky, Janet
Soldner, and P. J. Nickel. :
BOARD BUDGETS FOR 1944
Each year the boards of the General Confer-
ence are asked to make out their budgets for
the year. For 1944 they were as follows:
Board of Foreign Missions
Board of Home Missions
Emergency Relief Board_
Board of Education_
OFFICERS OF DISTRICT CONFERENCES
Eastern District Conference
President — Russell L. Mast, Bedminster, Pa.
V. President — Howard G. Nyce, Allentown, -Pa.
Secretary — Olin A. Krehbiel, Lansdale, Pa.
Treasurer — Alvin H. Alderfer, Holmesburg, Pa.
Middle District Conference
President — J. N. Smucker, Bluffton, Ohio
V. President — G. T. Soldner, Bluftton, Ohio
Secretary — Gerhard Buhler, Linma, Ohio
Treasurer — L. A. Geiger, Treasurer, Pandora, Ohio
Western District Conference
President — D. C. Wedel, Halstead, Kansas
V. President — H. T. Unruh, Hillsboro) Kansas
Secretary — Roland von Riesen, Walton, Kansas
Pacific District Conference
President — Homer Leisy, Dallas, Oregon
V. President — P. K. Regier, Reedley, Calif.
Secretary —- Marvin Linscheid, Aberdeen, Idaho
Treasurere — John C. Jantz, Odessa, Wash.
J. M. Franz, Salem, Oregon, Minister at Large
Northern District Conference
President — Erland Waltner, Mt. Lake, Minn.
Canadian Conference
President — J. J. Thiessen, Saskatoon, Sask.
V. President — Benj. Ewert, Winnipeg, Man.
Secretary — J. G. Rempel, Rosthern, Sask.
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OFFICERS OF THE CONFERENCE
President—C. E. Krehbiel, Newton, Kansas
Vice President—A. J. Dyck, Inman, Kansas
Secretary—Phil A. Wedel, Goessel, Kansas
Executive Committee
Chairman—C. E. Krehbiel, Newton, Kansas
Vice Chairman—A. J. Dyck, Inman, Kansas
Secretary—Phil. A. Wedel, Goessel, Kansas
P. P. Wedel, Moundridge, Kansas
. M. Regier, Hillsboro, Kansas
. J. Andres, Newton, Kansas
. G. Kaufman, North Newton,
. W. Bauman, Bluffton, Ohio
. E. Suderman, Newton, Kansas
Kansas
Conf. Treas.—Karl A. Richert, Newton, Kansas
Statistician—Phil. A. Wedel, Goessel, Kansas
Business Committee
Chairman—J. S. Schultz, Bluffton, Ohio
Secretary—Walter Geriny, Moundridge, Kansas ---. 1944
J. J. Thiessen, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
4 Board of Foreign Missions
Chairman—P. P. Wedel, Moundridge, Kansas --.- 1950
Vice Chairman—A. E. Kreider, Goshen, Ind. ---. 1944
Secretary—P. H. Richert, Newton, Kansas
Treasurer—P. A. Penner, Newton, Kansas
(Appointed )
H. G. Nyce, Allentown, Pa. ~---~------------- 1947
A. P. Waltner, Marion, South Dakota
D. J. Unruh, Newton, Kansas
Board of Home Missions
Chairman—J. M. Regier, Hillsboro, Kansas
Secretary—A. J. Neuenschwander, Quakertown,
Pennsylvania
Treasurer—J. J. Plenert, 7319 Whitaker Ave.
Philadelphia, Pa.
David Toews, Rosthern, Sask.,
J. E. Amstutz, Trenton, Ohio
Harley King, Colfax, Washington
Board of Publication
Chairman—H. J. Andres, Newton, Kansas
Secretary—J. M. Suderman, Newton, Kansas -_-_
Treasurer—E. W. Baumgartner, Berne, Ind.
C. Henry Smith, Bluffton, Ohio
A. A. Penner, Mountain Lake, Minn, ~--_--_-
A. J. Richert, Los Angeles, Calif.
Board of Education
Chairman—E. G. Kaufman, N. Newton, Kansas__
Secretary—Lester Hostetler, N. Newton, Kansas
Treasurer—A,. S. Rosenberger, Dalton, Ohio
J. H. Langenwalter, North Newton, Kansas ~~
J. D. Unruh, Freeman, South Dakota
Erland Waltner, Mt. Lake, Minnesota
Emergency Relief Board
Chairman—I. W. Bauman, Bluffton, Ohio
Vice Chairman—H. A. Fast, N. Newton, Kansas __
Secretary—John C. Mueller, Freeman, S. Dak. ~___
Treasurer—D. C. Wedel, Halstead, Kansas
Walter Temple, Allentown, Pa.
Jacob Gerbrandt, Drake, Saskatchewan
Board of Trustees
Chairman—H. E. Suderman, Newton, Kansas —_-_
Secretary—J. E. Regier, Newton, Kansas
Treasurer—Karl A. Richert, Newton, Kansas —__.
J. J. Eymann, Reedley, California
J. C. Gbaber, Freeman, South Dakota
C. H. Goering, Moundridge, Kansas ~---__.:--
Committee on Doctrine and Conduct
Chairman—J. C. Kaufman, Whitewater, Kansas
Secretary—Willard Claassen, Freeman, S. Dakota
Treasurer—J. E. Entz, Newton, Kansas
John Bartel, Shafter, California
Elmer Basinger, Summerfield, Il.
Placement Committee
Chairman—Freeman H. Swartz, Norristown, Pa. 1950
Secretary—P. K. Regier, Reedley, Calif. 1947
Abraham Warkentin, 228 E. Huron, Chicago, Ill 1950
J. H. Enns, 392 Alex. Ave., Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada 1944
N. W. Bahnmann, Vancouver, B. C. ~--~--~- 1944
P. E. Whitmer, Bluffton, Ohio 1947
Peace Committee
Chairman—H. T. Unruh, Hillsboro, Kansas 1944
Vice Chairman—J.-N. Smucker, Bluffton, Ohio ~. 1944
Treasurer—L. J. Horsch, Ontario, California --.. 1950
Emil Waltner, Freeman, South Dakota 1947
John G. Rempel, Rosthern, Saskatchewan -_.. 1944
Church Unity Committee
Chairman—Benj. Ewert, 286 River Ave.,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Secretary—William F. Unruh, Moundridge, Kansas
Arnold E. Funk, Hillsboro, Kansas
I. J. Dick, Mountain Lake, Minnesota
J. E. Kaufman, Inman, Kansas
John Regier, Laird, Saskatchewan
Members Bible School and Seminary Board
Lester Hostetler, North Newton, Kansas
A. S. Rosenberger, Dalton, Ohio.
Ed. G. Kaufman, North Newton, Kansas
E. W. Baumgartner, Berne, Indiana
J. N. Smucker, Bluffton, Ohio
C. E. Krehbiel, Newton, Kansas
AUXILIARY ORGANIZATIONS
Women’s Missionary Societies
President—Mrs. A. M. Lohrentz, McPherson, Kansas.
Vice President—Mrs. R. A. Goerz, Newton, Kansas
Secretary—Mrs. W. C. Voth, Newton, Kansas
Treasurer—Mrs. Frieda Regier Entz, Newton, Kansas
Literature Committee
Chairman—Mrs. J. S. Schultz, Bluffton, Ohio
Secy.-Treas.—Mrs. A. J. Neuenschwander, Qukertown, Pa.
Librarian—Mrs. A. E. Kreider, Goshen, Indiana
Junior and Intermediate Department
Miss Huldah Myers, Quakertown, Pennsylvania
District. Advisors
Northern District—Mrs. P. R. Schroeder, Chairman,
Mountain Leke, Minnesota
Eastern District—Mrs. J. R. Fretz, Secy.-Treas.
Lansdale, Pennsylvania
Western District—Miss Elizabeth Andres, Newton, Kans.
Middle District—Mrs. Menno Burkhalter, Berne, Indiana
Pacific District—Mrs. A. J. Richert, Springvale Dr.,
Los Angeles, Calif.
Canada—Mrs. G, A. Krehbiel, Drake, Saskatchewan
All-Mennonite Committee
Miss Emma Ruth, Reedley, Calif.
Young People’s Union
President—Ted. Claassen, Newton, Kansas
Vice President—Arthur Wenger,
Secy.-Treas.—Dorothy Dietz, Quakertown, Pa.
District Representatives of Y.P.U.
Eastern—Ernest Leitzel, Richfield, Pa.
Middle—Kathleen Amstutz, Pandora, Ohio.
Western—Ruth Evwert, Hillsboro, Kansas
Northern—StelHa Waltner, Freeman, S. Dakota
Pacific—Alice Lehman, Aberdeen, Idaho
Canada—Jacob C. Schmidt, Waldheim, Sask.
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FOREIGN MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS
America
Oklahoma—
Clinton: Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ediger (serving also
Mamon and; Thomas) (on furlough) Newton, Kans.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Claassen
Canton: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Friesen
Longdale and Fonda)
Montana—
Lame Deer: Mr. and Mrs. R. Petter (supervising also
Birney.)
Busby: Mr. and Mrs. A. Habegger
Ashland: Mrs. V. Petter, assisted by Miss Gibbs.
Arizona—
Oraibi: Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Suderman
Berne, Indiana
Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Harder
Hotevilla: Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Schirmer
Tuba City (Moen Copi): Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Johnson
India
(serving also
(on furlough)
Champa, C. P.—
Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Penner
Doctors H. R. and Ella Bauman (on furlough) Quaker-
town, Pennsylvania
Miss Eva Pauls, nurse (on furlough) Inman, Kansas
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ratzlaff
Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Waltner
Miss Elinore Schmidt
Janjgir, C. P.—
Miss Martha Burkhalter (on furlough) Berne, Indiana
Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Moyer
Miss Helen Nickel (on furlough) Mt. Lake, Minnesota
Miss Alida Schrag
Mauhaudah—
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Isaac
Korba, C. P.—
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Jantzen
Jagdispur, C. P.—
Dr. and Mrs. H. E. Dester
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Duerksen
Augusta Schmidt
Mr. and Mrs. John Thiessen
China
Kai Chow, Hopei Province
Miss Elizabeth Goertz (Interned)
Miss Marie J. Regier (Interned)
Tamingfu, Hopein Prov.—
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Brown (On furlough), Aberdeen, Id.
Miss Wilhelmina Kuyf (on furlough) A:ron, Pa.
Philippines
Baguio—
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Jantzen (Interned)
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Dirks (Interned)
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wuthrich (Interned)
America (on furlough and evacuated)
Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Pannabecker, Bluffton, Ohio
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Voth, Newton, Kansas.
Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Pannabecker, Gibson City, Illinois
Miss Aganetha Fast, Mt. Lake, Minnesota
Miss Etta R. Davis, Lansdale, Pennsylvania
Mr. and Mrs. August Ewert, Mt. Lake, Minn.
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Penner, Newton, Kansas
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Wenger, Champa
Mr. -and Mrs. S. J.- Goering, Newton, Kansas.
; For Bogota, Colombia, S.. A.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Stucky ’
Bible Classes in Public Schools,
Miss Mary Becker
Miss Janet Soldner
Laverne Rutschman
For Africa under C. I. M. ~
Mr. and Mrs. George Neufeld .
Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Toews
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dick
HOME: MISSION WORKERS IN CANADA
Itinerant Ministers:
Rev. J. P. Bueckert, Gretna, Man.
Rev. C. B. Dirks, Codette, Sask.
Rev. C. D. Harder, Rosemary, Alta.
Rev. J. P. Klassen, 665 E 48th Ave., Vancouver, B. Cc.
Rev. Wm. Martens, Grantham, Alta.
Rev. G. G. Neufeld, Whitewater, Man.
Rev. Jacob J. Nickel, Langham, Sask.
Rev. John J. Nickel, Main Centre, Sask.
Rev. John G. Rempel, Rosthern, Sask.
Rev. C. F. Sawatzky, Laird, Sask.
Rev. Jacob Toews, Glenlea, Man.
Workers in Cities, Girls Home:
a Miss Lena Epp, Matron, 605 Bannatyne Ave., Winni-
peg, Man.
Rev. J. H. Enns, Spiritual Leader and Bible Teacher,
392 Alexander Avenue, Winnipeg, Man.
b. Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Thiessen, Supt. and Matron,
443 3rd Avenue N., Saskatoon, Sask.
Rev. Thiessen is also Pastor of the Church in Saskatoon
c. Rev. and Mrs. Jacob B. Wiens, Supt. and Matron,
6460 St. George St. Vancouver, B. C. Rev. Wiens is
also Pastor of the Church in Vancouver.
Rev. Arnold A. Fast, 12 Bank Street, Toronto, Ont.
Paster of United Mennonite Church, Toronto.
Rev. I. I Friesen, 864 Downing St., Winnipeg, Man.
Pastor of’ Bethel Church, Winnipeg.
Calgary Mission, Rev. J. J. Sawatzky, Carstairs, Alta.
Other Workers:
. Is. A. Derksen, Herbert, Sask:
,, David Hausknecht, Sardis, B. C.
- Jacob H. Janzen, 164 Erb St. W., Waterloo, Ont.
. Joh. Ju Klassen, Yarrow, B. C.
. Jacob D. Nickel, Lymburn, Alta.
. V. E. Nickel, Wymark, Sask.
. Peter J. Reimer, Steinbach, Man.
Mr. A. T. Wiens, Reesor, Ont.
HOME MISSION WORKERS AND THEIR FIELDS
IN THE U. S&S. A.
Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Regier, Quarryville, Pa. R. R. 2.
Calvary Mennonite Church, Mechanic Grove, Pa.
Miss: Catherine Niswander, Parish Worker in Philadel-
phia, 2011 North 7th Street, Phalidelphia, Pa.
Rev. and Mrs. Delbert E. Welty, 2204-1lth Avenue,
Altoona, Pa. Memorial Mennonite Church. :
Rev. and Mrs. John S. Raugh, E. Freedom, Pa. Smith
Corner Mennonite Church. ‘
Rev. and Mrs. Erwin A. Albrecht, 1500 West 72nd
Place, Chicago, Illinois. ~
Rey. and Mrs. John T. Neufeld, 4215 So. Rockwell Street,
Chicago 32, Ill.
Mennonite Bible Mission, 4221 So. Rockwell Street,
5138 N.E. 23rd Avenue
Chicago 32, IIl.
Alberta Community Church,
Portland, Oregon—Rev. and Mrs. Clyde H. Dirks,
5215 N.E. 28rd Avenue, Portland, Oregon, coming
after Rev. H. Wiebe takes up other work.
Churches supported in Cooperation. with District Con-
ferences: Mennonite Mission Church, Ferdonia, Kansas
Served by Bethel College students preparing for ministry.
Bethel. Mennonite Church, Winton,
California, Rev.
and Mrs. J. P. Glanzer. >
Southern Mountain Work paca
Miss Elsa E. Grantland, Paint Rock, North Carolina,
Sunday. Schools and
Personal Soul. winning.
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OFFICERS OF THE CONFERENCE
President—C. E. Krehbiel, Newton, Kansas ------ 1944
Vice President—A. J. Dyck, Inman, Kansas ------ 1944
Secretary—Phil A. Wedel, Goessel, Kansas ------ 1944
Executive Committee
Chairman—C. E. Krehbiel, Newton, Kansas
Vice Chairman—A. J. Dyck, Inman, Kansas
Secretary—Phil. A. Wedel, Goessel, Kansas
P. P. Wedel, Moundridge, Kansas
J. M. Regier, Hillsboro, Kansas
E. G. Kaufman, North Newton, Kansas
I. W. Bauman, Bluffton, Ohio
H. E. Suderman, Newton, Kansas
Conf. Treas.—Karl A. Richert, Newton, Kansas
Statistician—Phil. A. Wedel, Goessel, Kansas
Business Committee
Chairman—J. S. Schultz, Bluffton, Ohio -------- 1950
Secretary—Walter Gering, Moundridge, Kansas ---- 1944
J. J. Thiessen, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan ~-------~-- 1947
Board of Foreign Missions
Chairman—P. P. Wedel, Moundridge, Kansas ---- 1950
Vice Chairman—A. E. Kreider, Goshen, Ind. ---. 1944
Secretary—P. H. Richert, Newton, Kansas ------ 1947
Treasurer—P. A. Penner, Newton, Kansas
(Appointed)
H. G. Nyce, Allentown, Pa. ~----------------- 1947
A. P. Waltner, Marion, South Dakota -~------- 1950
D. J. Unruh, Newton, Kansas ~--------------- 1944
Board of Home Missions
Chairman—J. M. Regier, Hillsboro, Kansas ~~-~-~- 1950
Secretary—A. J. Neuenschwander, Quakertown,
Pensupivanin, A ooo o a ewes 1944
Treasurer—J. J: Plenert, 7319 Whitaker Ave.
PS OR ae 1947
David Toews, Rosthern, Sask., Can. —------- 1947
J. E. Amstutz, Trenton, Ohio ~--------------- 1944
Harley King, Colfax, Washington ~-~-~----~-- 1950
\ Board of Publication
Chairman—H. J. Andres, Newton, Kansas ----~--~- 1944
Secretary—J. M. Suderman, Newton, Kansas ---~ 1947
Treasurer—E. W. Baumgartner, Berne, Ind. ~--- 1950
C. Henry Smith, Bluffton, Ohio ~---------~- 1950
A. A. Penner, Mountain Lake, Minn. -------- 1947
A. J. Richert, Los Angeles, Calif. -------- 1944
Board of Education
Chairman—E. G. Kaufman, N. Newton, Kansas__ 1950
Secretary—Lester Hostetler, N. Newton, Kansas 1944
Treasurer—A. S. Rosenberger, Dalton, Ohio ~~-~~- 1950
J. H. Langenwalter, North Newton, Kansas -_ 1947
J. D. Unruh, Freeman, South Dakota ~------- 1944
Erland Waltner, Mt. Lake, Minnesota ~-..---_ 1947
Emergency Relief Board
Chairman—I. W. Bauman, Bluffton, Ohio ~------- 1950
Vice Chairman—H. A. Fast, N. Newton, Kansas -_ 1950
Secretary—John C. Mueller, Freeman, S. Dak. ---. 1944
Treasurer—D. C. Wedel, Halstead, Kansas ~_-_~- 1947
Walter Temple, Allentown, Pa. -~-~--------_ 1944
Jacob Gerbrandt, Drake, Saskatchewan -_---- 1944
Board of Trustees
Chairman—H. E, Suderman, Newton, Kansas -... 1944
Secretary—J. E. Regier, Newton, Kansas —_-_--~- 1947
Treasurer—Kar! A. Richert, Newton, Kansas —--. 1947
J. J. Eymann, Reedley, California ~.-._.--_-__ 1950
J. C. Gbaber, Freeman, South Dakota ~_--.-~- ‘1950
C. H. Goering,.Moundridge, Kansas -----..-.. 1944
Committee on Doctrine and Conduct
Chairman—J. C. Kaufman, Whitewater, Kansas
Secretary—Willard Claassen, Freeman, S. Dakota
Treasurer—J. E. Entz, Newton, Kansas
John Bartel, Shafter, California
Elmer Basinger, Summerfield, IIl.
Placement Committee
Chairman—Freeman H. Swartz, Norristown, Pa. 1950
Secretary—-P. K. Regier, Reedley, Calif. ------~- 1947
Abraham Warkentin, 228 E. Huron, Chicago, Ill 1950
J. H. Enns, 392 Alex. Ave., Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada --~------~--~--~~---~---~- 1944
N. W. Bahnmann, Vancouver, B. C. -------- 1944
P. E. Whitmer, Bluffton, Ohio ~-------~----- 1947
Peace Committee
Chairman—H. T. Unruh, Hillsboro, Kansas ~---~- 1944
Vice Chairman—J. N. Smucker, Bluffton, Ohio .. 1944
Treasurer—L. J. Horsch, Ontario, California ~--. 1950
Emil Waltner, Freeman, South Dakota -~~---- 1947
John G. Rempel, Rosthern, Saskatchewan --.. 1944
Church Unity Committee
Chairman—Benj. Ewert, 286 River Ave.,
Winnipeg, Manitoba ~----------_---__--___ 1947
Secretary—William F. Unruh, Moundridge, Kansas 1950
Arnold E. Funk, Hillsboro, Kansas ~.-----~-~ 1944
I. J. Dick, Mountain Lake, Minnesota ~---=--- 1947
J. E. Kaufman, Inman, Kansas ~-~~----~-~--~- 1950
John Regier, Laird, Saskatchewan ~----------. 1944
Members Bible School and Seminary Board
Lester Hostetler, North Newton, Kansas -------- 1944
A. S. Rosenberger, Dalton, Ohio ~--------------- 1944
Ed. G. Kaufman, North Newton, Kansas ~~-----~- 1947
E. W. Baumgartner, Berne, Indiana. --_------~-_ 1947
J. N. Smucker, Bluffton, Ohio ~----------------_ 1950
C. E. Krehbiel, Newton, Kansas ~----------------. 1950
AUXILIARY ORGANIZATIONS
Women’s Missionary Societies
President—Mrs. A. M. Lohrentz, McPherson, Kansas.
Vice President—Mrs. R. A. Goerz, Newton, Kansas
Secretary—Mrs. W. C. Voth, Newton, Kansas
Treasurer—Mrs. Frieda Regier Entz, Newton, Kansas
Literature Committee
Chairman—Mrs. J. S. Schultz, Bluffton, Ohio
Secy.-Treas.—Mrs. A. J. Neuenschwander, Qukertown, Pa.
Librarian—Mrs. A. E. Kreider, Goshen, Indiana
Junior and Intermediate Department
Miss Huldah Myers, Quakertown, Pennsylvania
District. Advisors
Northern District—Mrs. P. R. Schroeder,
Mountain Leke, Minnesota
Eastern District—Mrs. J. R. Fretz, Secy.-Treas.
Lansdale, Pennsylvania
Western District—Miss Elizabeth Andres, Newton, Kans.
Chairman,
Middle District—Mrs. Menno Burkhalter, Berne, Indiana -
Pacific District—Mrs. A. J. Richert, Springvale Dr.,
Los Angeles, Calif.
Canada—Mrs. G, A. Krehbiel, Drake, Saskatchewan
All-Mennonite Committee
Miss Emma Ruth, Reedley, Calif.
Young People’s Union
President—Ted: Claassen, Newton, Kansas
Vice President—Arthur Wenger,
Secy.-Treas.—Dorothy Dietz, Quakertown, Pa.
District Representatives of Y.P.U.
Eastern—Ernest Leitzel, Richfield, Pa.
Middle—Kathleen Amstutz, Pandora, Ohio.
Western—Ruth Ewert, Hillsboro, Kansas
Northern—Stella Waltner, Freeman, S. Dakota
Pacific—Alice Lehman, Aberdeen, Idaho
Canada—Jacob C. Schmidt, Waldheim, Sask.
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FOREIGN MISSIONARIES AND THEIR STATIONS
America
Oklahoma—
Clinton: Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ediger (serving also
Mamon and Thomas) (on furlough) Newton, Kans.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Claassen
Canton: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Friesen
Longdale and Fonda)
Montana—
Lame Deer: Mr. and Mrs. R. Petter (supervising also
Birney.)
Busby: Mr. and Mrs. A. Habegger
Ashland: Mrs. V. Petter, assisted by Miss Gibbs.
Arizona—
Oraibi: Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Suderman (on furlough)
Berne, Indiana
Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Harder
Hotevilla: Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Schirmer
Tuba City (Moen Copi): Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Johnson
India
(serving also
Champa, C. P.—
Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Penner
Doctors H. R. and Ella Bauman (on furlough) Quaker-
town, Pennsylvania
Miss Eva Pauls, nurse (on furlough) Inman, Kansas
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ratzlaff
Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Waltner
Miss Elinore Schmidt
Janjgir, C. P.—
Miss Martha Burkhalter (on furlough) Berne, Indiana
Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Moyer
Miss Helen Nickel (on furlough) Mt. Lake, Minnesota
Miss Alida Schrag
Mauhaudah—
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Isaac
Korba, C. P.—
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Jantzen
Jagdispur, C. P.—
Dr. and Mrs. H. E. Dester
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Duerksen
Augusta Schmidt
Mr. and Mrs. John Thiessen
China
Kai Chow, Hopei Province
Miss Elizabeth Goertz (Interned)
Miss Marie J. Regier (Interned)
Tamingfu, Hopein Prov.—
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Brown (On furlough), Aberdeen, Id.
Miss Wilhelmina Kuyf (on furlough) A:ron, Pa.
Philippines
Baguio—
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Jantzen (Interned)
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Dirks (Interned)
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wuthrich (Interned)
: America (on furlough and evacuated)
Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Pannabecker, Bluffton, Ohio
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Voth, Newton, Kansas.
Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Pannabecker, Gibson City, Illinois
Miss Aganetha Fast, Mt. Lake, Minnesota
Miss: Etta R. Davis, Lansdale, Pennsylvania
Mr. and Mrs. August Ewert, Mt. Lake, Minn.
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Penner, Newton, Kansas
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Wenger, Champa
Mr. and Mrs. S, J.- Goering, Newton, Kansas.
; For Bogota, Colombia, S. A.
Mr. and Mrs. -Gerald Stucky ‘
:Bible Classes .in Public Schools,
- Personal ; Soul. wintting.
Miss Mary Becker
Miss Janet Soldner
Laverne Rutschman
For Africa under C. I. M.
Mr. and’ Mrs. George Neufeld .
Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Toews
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dick
HOME MISSION WORKERS IN CANADA
Itinerant Ministers:
Rev. J. P. Bueckert, Gretna, Man.
Rev. C. B. Dirks, Codette, Sask.
Rev. C. D. Harder, Rosemary, Alta.
Rev. J. P. Klassen, 665 E 48th Ave., Vancouver, B. C.
Rev. Wm. Martens, Grantham, Alta.
Rev. G. G. Neufeld, Whitewater, Man.
Rev. Jacob J. Nickel, Langham, Sask.
Rev. John J. Nickel, Main Centre,‘ Sask.
Rev. John G. Rempel, Rosthern, Sask.
Rev. C. F. Sawatzky, Laird, Sask.
Rev. Jacob Toews, Glenlea, Man.
Workers in Cities, Girls Home:
a Miss Lena Epp, Matron, 605 Bannatyne Ave., Winni-
peg, Man.
Rev. J. H. Enns, Spiritual Leader and Bible Teacher,
392 Alexander Avenue, Winnipeg, Man.
b. Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Thiessen, Supt. and Matron,
443 3rd Avenue N., Saskatoon, Sask.
Rev. Thiessen is also Pastor of the Church in Saskatoon
c. Rev. and Mrs. Jacob B. Wiens, Supt. and Matron,
6460 St. George St. Vancouver, B. C. Rev. Wiens is
also Pastor of the Church in Vancouver.
Rev. Arnold A. Fast, 12 Bank Street, Toronto, Ont.
Paster of United Mennonite Church, Toronto.
Rev. I. I Friesen, 864 Downing St., Winnipeg, Man.
Pastor of Bethel Church, Winnipex.
Calgary Mission, Rev. J. J. Sawatzky, Carstairs, Alta.
Other Workers:
Rev. Is. A. Derksen, Herbert, Sask.
Rev. David Hausknecht, Sardis, B. C.
Rev. Jacob H. Janzen, 164 Erb St. W., Waterloo, Ont.
Rev. Joh. Ju Klassen, Yarrow, B. C.
Rev. Jacob D. Nickel, Lymburn, Alta.
Rev. V. E. Nickel, Wymark, Sask.
Rev. Peter J. Reimer, Steinbach, Man.
Mr. A. T. Wiens, Reesor, Ont.
HOME MISSION WORKERS AND THEIR FIELDS
IN THE U. S. A.
Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Regier, Quarryville, Pa. R. R. 2.
Calvary Mennonite Church, Mechanic Grove, Pa.
Miss Catherine Niswander, Parish Worker in Philadel-
phia, 2011 North 7th Street, Phalidelphia, Pa.
Rev. and Mrs. Delbert E. Welty, 2204-1lth Avenue,
Altoona, Pa. Memorial Mennonite Church.
Rev. and Mrs. John S. Raugh, E. Freedom, Pa. Smith
Corner Mennonite Church.
Rev. and Mrs: Erwin A. Albrecht, 1500 West 72nd
Place, Chicago, Illinois. ~
Rev. and Mrs. John T. Neufeld, 4215 So. Rockwell Street,
Chicago 32, Ill.
Mennonite Bible Mission, So. Rockwell Street,
5138 N.E. 23rd Avenue
Chicago 32, Ill.
Alberta Community Church,
Clyde H. Dirks,
Portland, Oregon, coming
Portland, Oregon—Rev. and Mrs.
Wiebe takes up other work.
5215 N.E. 28rd Avenue,
Churches supported in Cooperation with District Con-
4221
after Rev. H.
ferences:
Served by Bethel ege students preparing for ministry.
Bethel. Mennonite Church, Winton,
and Mrs. J. P. Glanzer.
Southern Mountain Work aes
Miss Elsa E, Grantland, Paint Rock, North Carolina,
Sunday. Schools and
eee, Mission Church, Ferdonia, Kansas
Co
California, Rev.
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WESTERN DISTRICT CONFERENCE Pei cara Oe Pads panna MePhayen., anaes
i REO oe ae eS " Kansas
Albrecht, Abraham ..........+--=:: Newton, Kansas Neufeld, Peter T. .. Inman,
Albrecht. Franz .........---+: Beatrice. Nebraska oor aha Ee ee
oe SL lea Gursom, Kans, Penner, Cornelius 1523 High St., Beatrice, Nebraska
tome Sod nnonnanenw—oe ton, Kansas enmmer. B.A... ++. .05s eens Newton, Kansas
BnMan, J. fs -s+2: Se ross : Penner, P. W. ... -"Champa. C. P., India
Bechtel, A. S. .....-. cece cece eee Hanston, Kansas Rahn, Benj. P Enid, Oklahoma
Bergen, J. W. ........--- ... Goltry, Oklahoma = Parviagr, T. Ree ERNE ES 1 Newton, Kansas
Brand, D. J. -—-.--.—-=--- _._Jacksonville, Fla. REGGAE Witold |... oe ee * India
ee fs P, ------------------ —— —— Regier, Arnold .......... North Newton, Kansas
MERCER ne Ieee eens: A191 Se ist ties #6 . ’ Regier, G. B. .......-.0- .... Inola, Oklahoma
Claassen, Curt A. ~------------------- Meno, Oklahoma Regier, J. M. Hillsboro, Kansas
Claassen, H. Albert .. 1508 Elk St., Beatrice, Nebr. Regier Walter’ H. SP lila a AX Dade 3 Durham. Kansas
ee oe si ee ae ee ae Basna, C. P., India Riesen, He .....cc cence ee sseos Ponca City, Okla.
¥ yde hs emma iors ae Portland, Oregon Riesen eran ta von Walton, Kansas
Dirks, A. JaCOD 2.0.0 cee dein cse Halstead, Kansas ME IRATE xo.sick nose Newton ’ Kansas
Duerksen, J. R. df Gear gear ine! a kanes Philippine, Islands Roth. Theodore .:-.---..s---- Whitewater, Kansas
aerkner: Be ee ee ee. ae Basna India Rutschman, Lavern---------------- Whitewater, Kansas
Dyck, i ig 4 R. - 582 W. 12th, play ee Sawatzky, J. F. 1607 N. Poplar, Newton, Kansas
MME ASE. core und acon uengit Elbing. Kansas Schmidt, Abe A. ........-. Mac Intosh, New Mexico
FS eae ey it ar .. Schmidt, Albert G. .......-+- Medford, Oklahoma
Dyck, Walter H... 1408 N. 9 St., Beatrice. Nebr. Schmidt, August Meno, Oklahoma
ge Tea acta e conege, 7 Schmidt. Edw. D. 343 So. Chautauqua, Wichita. Ks.
Lo No i aaa Ra eg ee eae ek LO Schmidt, H. B. |.......¢++-ssc0 s+: Newton, Kansas
Ediger, LOSE Upalinte ule eistw ep thre Teun Clinton, Oklahoma Schmidt, H. U. Meno, Oklahoma
a its eee eden Ce dlasesisn ere Newton, Kansas Senniae J.B .s...c.ascsece Pawnee Rock, Kansas
Pp, ga Rois ae aukn te ane ee Burrton, Kansas Schmidt, John F. Pueblo, Colo
a Ft 5 ye eee Nebr. Schmidt, Rudolph ....-....++++++- Ft. Cobb, Okla.
ss... * xin eta a camaes Sperling, Homer —~--------------------- Meno, Oklahoma
ee ES eee eee remem ensas = slucky, Fritz .....-.... Mountain View, Oklahoma
E t. J BAT ere re ok ES IRS ONE 5 Stucky, Harley J. ---- 3524 S. Washtenaw, Chicago, III.
— ho WU hike tov ater iiaiw cme Hillsboro, Kansas SaMeEnAMN ES, CURL 6s yacdees'v Rian oan Newton, Kansas
ary H. = ES TY ITY PBT ate Dace Hp ge eae Suderman, John P. ---------------- Berne, Indiana
OG RRS 4 ies ssa css * av Sins k cane ahoma Thiessen, Henry ........---- Independence. Banas
Frantz, Peter E., 655 So. Lorraine Ave., Wichita, Ks. Thiessen, John Basna, C. P., India
Fransen, Henry Sa Sat Seo Se <E=. ~ Buhler. — Toews Henry 7 AORN ak eS Sheng
rey, WES os oc ins wa i parents ewton, ansas 4 ek eer
Frey, Gustav . 2.2... 00 s2sesnscaes Newton, Kansas aa aw Ny ERENy, ee eae
Frey, i ee ee ee ere eee Cornville, Ariz. Shatathe TREES. = «oo cdace cess tane Buhler, Kansas
Friesen, Adolf —~..-------.---~------- Newton, Kansas Unr tt Daniel J Se iar ae a eae capt ae Newton. Kansas
Friesen, Arthur .............--. Canton, Oklahoma pryh, H. T. ~-~-~-""""-""""—Frilisboro, Kansas
Friesen, C. B. .....--+-++++-+0+- Bessie, Oklahoma fynruh’ Jacob J. .----+++rcrer se: Columbia, S. C.
Friesen, Gerhard .........--++++-+- Newton, Kansas = tynruh, Noah ee ie kena Cordell, Oklahoma
Solana e ag hee AT PRED ee Henn Gitenen Unruh, Wm. F. .....----.---- Moundridge, Kansas
MEK, EROMET 230-2 ose or ceneee res a ahoma van der Smissen, Alvin .......----- Buhler, Kansas
Funk, Arnold E. ......------.- Hillsboro, KansaS wan der Smissen, C Newton, Kansas
Gaeddert, Albert .......-.--- Moundridge, Kansas wvyoran, C sd Pte Sie Kingman, Kansas
Gering. Walter A. .......... Moundridge. Kansas Voth, C,H. ..........1....1.l.1.. Inman, Kansas
Goering. C. J. ....-. ... Moundridge, Kansas Voth. John ¥: ***"*"North Newton, Kansas
Goering, Roland ------------------ McPherson, Kansas yoth’ Pp. R. _-__------------- R. 2, Newton, Kansas
Goering, S.J... 2... :.+---505 North Newton, Kansas vo Ww. va saoocececeessccce= 7 Newton, Kansas
Goertz, P. S. ..........++-: North Newton, Kansas) warientin, A. -------------- 998 E. Huron, Chicago, Ill.
Goossen, Henry W. -------------------- Burns, Kansas wedel, C. C. Newton, Kansas
Graber, Victor ...........-.--- .._ Plains, Kansas wedel. David Bric htc a, eee Halstead, Kansas
Harder, B. W. ....--.eeee ees Whitewater, Kansas ogel) Garman .........--. North Newton, Kansas
cole MARS cla .. Geary, Okla. Wedel, P. P. ....-:ssseeeeees Moundridge, Kansas
Harms, C., BN als yleidd cenit Whitewater, aoe Wedel, Phil. A Goessel, Kansas
See Oa ee orn lahoma nee a on es wto -
peta er goin aiseaals EENOREE eu, = eres Reynold ...- North eeu eee
antuen, col SE ee eho seas pessoas ePID Serie a are Ais asae siereuiew eee
Jantzen, Jacob ____-_--_____________ Bessie. Oklahoma Wutrich, Lester -------------------------- Philippines
Jantzen, bun Ree rere Meno, Okla.
PS i DS: Sper eran oe Lehigh, Kansas
Janzen. J. M. ........:eeseeeeeees Hesston, Kansas NORTHERN DISTRICT CONFERENCE
Kaufman, E. G. ............ North Newton, Kansas’ Balzer, J. J. ..-.++--+++++++: Mountain Lake, Minn.
Kaufman, MOND Cy aisshicit alates hele Whitewater, Kansas Claassen, Willard K. .....-.---.: Freeman, fe
Kaufman, J. E. ..........06. eee eee Inman, Kansas Dahlenburg, Paul .....-..-- Langdon, N. Dak.
Kliewer, Menno H, -_-----------_-_-_ Bessie, Oklahoma Dick, Elmer J. ....----+++++0:- Frazer, Montana
Kopper, nee SLRS SB Arlington, Kansas Dick, George .....--++++-+++: Bloomfield, Montana
Koontz, Elbert ~--...-.-.-------.-- Beatrice, Nebraska Dick, Isaac J. .....---+++++: Mountain Lake, Minn.
Krehbiel, C. E. ........-0-000-55- Newton, Kansas Duerksen, Edward .......-..-- Avon, So. Dakota
Kreider, Amos E. ... ... Goshen, Indiana Eitzen, David P. ... .. Mountain Lake, Minn.
Kuhlmann, Paul ------ "1515 So. 10 St., Omaha, Nebr. Epp, H. De ..c cece eee eeee cece Henderson, Nebr.
Langenwalter, J. 9 es North Newton, Kans. , John P. peas oe Heaters Nebraska
Lehman, Sylvan S. ----------------------- Lima, Ohio Epp, John F. ... ... Henderson. Nebr.
Lichti, John ....... ...... Deer Creek. Oklahoma Ewert, Albert ..... ee .. Lustre, Montana
Lorenz, J. W., 2601 N. Lorraine. Hutchinson. Kans. Ewert, August ....... "> "Mountain. Lake, Minn.
Miller, Herbert Wee tac anaiean Deer Creek, Oklahoma _ Fast, Aite Mesa ..----.-.--- Dayton, Ohio
Mouttet, Sol. .........-.05--se ees Inola, Oklahoma Flickinger, Waldo .......... Alsen, North Dakota
Moyer, J. F. ......--.-+-+- North Newton, Kansas Friesen, Abraham W. ....-.- Henderson. Nebraska
eee CrC<;323; ZJ,,S
THE MENNONITE YEARBOOK, 1945 39
Spink, South Dakota
Jacob A.
New York
Friesen,
Friesen, Jacob T.
Friesen, Peter J.
Gross, Harold
Harder, D. D.
Harder, Frank
Hofer. Jacob B.
Hoffman, Jake
Kleinsasser, J.
Kleinsasser, P. P.
Butterfield, Minn.
Dolton, So. Dak.
Lustre, Montana
Freeman, S. Dakota
Linscheid, L. H. Freeman, South Dakota
Mierau, Hugo Hartford, Conn.
Nickel, Bern. J. -------------------- Butterfield, Minn.
Ortmann, Arthur Warroad, Minn.
Ortmann, Helmuth Munich, North Dakota
Preheim, S. P. Los Angeles, Calif.
Quiring, H. H. Mountain Lake, Minn.
Regier, Jacob J. Freeman, S. Dakota
Rupp, H. H. Westbrook, Minn.
Sawatzky, Victor Butterfield, Minn.
Schultz, Albert Omaha, Nebraska
Schultz, David A. —.722 S. Charles St. Saginaw. Mich.
Schrag, John J. A. Parker, S. Dakota
Stoesz, Jacob Mountain Lake, Minn.
Tieszen, David D. Marion South Dakota
Tieszen, Derk P. .......... Marion, South Dakota
Tieszen, J. A. ................ Marion, S. Dakota
Toavs, Daniel A. Wolf Point, Montana
Toavs, Jesse A. Mountain Lake, Minn.
Toews, Gerhard J. ........ Freeman, South Dakota
Richey, Montana
South Dakota
Marion, S. Dakota
Waltner, Erland ....
Waltner, Orlando
..... Mountain Lake, Minn.
Champa, C. P., India
PACIFIC DISTRICT CONFERENCE
Bartel, John Shafter, Calif.
Baumgartner, S. S., 3425 S. E. Grant, Portland, Ore.
Becker, Peter Aberdeen, Idaho
Dirks, H. B. 2404 Glover Pl., Los Angeles. Calif.
Eitzen, D. D., 3753 Hepburn, Los Angeles, Calif.
Frantz. J. M. Salem, Oregon
rieeen, is. 6. ooo oo a Salem, Oregon
Glanzer. J. P. Winton, California
Hanes, Leonard C. ~_-_-_-__.__________ Gendale, Calif.
PBA Oe Wate s saa sics ves enone Paso Robles, California
Hess, D. B. Winton, California
Jantzen, F. F. Paso Robles. Calif.
Jantzen, Albert Philippines
Jantzen, Aaron India
Kaufman, Orlo, Paso Robles, Calif.
King, W. Harley Colfax, Washington
Kliewer, P. A. Albany, Washington
Koehn, F. D. Blaine, Wash.
Kroeker, P. K. ............+-.- Reedley, California
Lehmann, M. M. .............. Monroe, Washington
Leisy, Homer Dallas, Oregon
Lichti, J. K. Sanger, California
Mehl, J. C. ....... rere eek Upland, California
Miller. Edmund J. Lind, Washington
Nachtigal, Peter Reedley, Calif.
Niswander, M. A. .......-...0--0+55 Upland, Calif.
FRACZIOLE, TDD Be nos oo oii on winds wiarets Reedley, California
Regier, P. K. Reedley, Calif.
Regier, Wilbert A, ~-------------~---- Pratum, Oregon
Salzman, Earl Upland, Calif.
Schultz, David D. Paso Robles, Calif.
Ummel, Chr. Shafter, Calif.
Voth, H. D. Escondido, Calif.
Voth, J. J. Upland, California
Waltner, John Odessa, Washington
Wenger, Arthur D.
Wenger, Malcohm
Widmer. Herbert, Garfield, Washington
Wiebe, Alfred Upland, Calif.
Wiens, Aran J. .......-.-. Box 202, Lynden, Wash.
Busby, Montana
EASTERN DISTRICT CONFERENCE
Amstutz, S. S. ..... ce cece cece neces Quarryville, Pa.
Bauman, Dr. and Mras. Harvey R. ---- Quakertown, Pa.
Bohn, Ernest J. Bluffton, Ohio
Burkholder, Harold D. Quakertown, Pa.
Dick, Walter, J. .4131 N. Darieu St] Philadelphia P
Geigley, A. W. ..-....0-cseteeec enone Fairfield,
Graybill, Benjamin S. Richfield,
Graber, Ellis Souderton,
Greger, George D. .....-.---+-+--+-- Schellsburg,
Hess, Elmer D.
Johnson; Elmer E. S. ......--++-0+++++ Hereford,
Krehbiel, Olin A. Lansdale,
Landes, Howard T., 6813 Clearview St.,
Martin, Amos F, ----232 Manor Ave., Millersville,
Mast, Russel L. Bedminster, Pa
Moyer, Samuel T. hp. ye
Neuenschwander, A
Nyce, Howard G. ------ 1528 Chew St., Allentown,
Plenert, J. J. 7319 Whitaker Ave., Phi
: phia, Pa.
Raugh, John G. ,...-...+-+2+2++++ E. Freedom, Pa.
Regier, Alfred ~--------------- Quarryville, Pa.
Rosenberger. S. M., R.R. 2, Quakertown, Pa.
Shelly, Andrew R. --57 Stirling Ave Kitchener, Ontarie
Shelly, Elwood S. .... 440 Dotts St., Pennsburg, Pa.
Shelly, Paul R. Bluffton, Ohio
Shelly, Ward, W. Pa.
Slotterback, E. F.
Snyder, A. S
Coopersburg,
cade oe de ena. Ber ee SDEROOI, Ohio
3 104 E. 2nd Ave., Altoona, Pa.
Stoneback, G. S. Box 126, Fairfield, Pa.
Stubbs, R. V. Bowmansville, Pa.
Swartz, Freeman H., 507 Hamilton St., Norristown,
Welty, Delbert E. -------- 2204 E. 2 Ave. Altoona, Pa.
Wenger, Mr. and Mrs. Paul ee
LICENTIATES
Fretz, J. Herbert, 537 Derstine Ave., Lansdale, Pa.
Temple, Walter H. ------1124 N. 18 St., ae ca ce
Unruh, John Lansdale, "Pa.
MIDDLE DISTRICT CONFERENCE
Busby, Montana
1500 W. 72 Place, Chicago, Ill.
Trenton, Ohio
Van Orin, Il.
Bluffton, Ohio
Pandora. Ohio
Bluffton, Ohio
Pandora, Ohio
Versailles, Mo.
Everett, Ohio
Wayland, Iowa
Habegger,
Albrecht, Erwin ....
Amstutz, J. BE. ....- cn wc cece cece seuss
Augsburger, Wm.
Basinger, Elmer
Bauman, Irwin W.
Boehr, P. J.
Enz. Jacob
Esau, J. J.
Hass, Jacob
Hilty, P. P.
Keiser, A. R.
Metzker, Leonard ............-.+++--
Mullett, E. S. Wayland, Iowa
Musser, Forrest Pandora, Ohio
Neufeld, John T., 4215 So. Rockwell St., Chicago, Ill.
Nunemaker, H. E. Donnellson, Iowa
Pannabecker, S. F.
Raid, Howard D.
Ramseyer, L. L. Bluffton, Ohio
Rosenberger, A. S. Dalton, Ohio
Shultz, A. ©. .-----~......-......---- __ Chicago, Ii.
Smucker, Donovan .........---+. Wadsworth, Ohio
Smucker, J. N. Bluffton, Ohio
Searier Go WT sew oa cs ssa oeevane Bluffton, Ohio
Stauffer, Wm. H. ...............- Sugarcreek, Ohio
Stucky, Gerald, ~-.-------------------- __ Berne, Ind.
Suckau, C. H. _-_------- 1515 So. 10 Str., Omaha, Nebr.
Unruh, P. D. Newport, Washington
Whitmer, P. E. Pandora, Ohio
Fortuna,
Janzen, Jacob Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua
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Deen eee eee __________
IN ees es SEE. ane
T AND ELDE THE artens, ram Finns PRs yolats d cet aaetapeee enbus
MINISTERS L mS Matthies, Corn. C. .........-2e2eeeee Rabbit Lake
CANADIAN CONFERENCE Neudorf, Heinrich ...........-.2.+see00= Aberdeen
*Nickel. Jacob J. ~-....-.==«-~-.--=--.-=-.. Langham
*ELDER *Miekel; Joh. J. 2-2 -2s2issasa=seasn eee Main Centre
BHCC Rs Ss) woe caw Sais vera. cia slewh eee Wymark
In Ontario Pais: GArEnor ok ais cecbsiels o.ee he cates geese Laird
Pauls. Jacob 6.>———--~~--——— =< ee Osler
Braun, Jacob. ... ccc cc cs cvense nc ee sees Waterloo Hamer ES2GISs Gia ob ciddesncun sees dsseeaee Laird
Dilek, Fea J. ne cei ccccc cece cscs New Hamburg TRO ET aed is oe cates srl saw aii Sia ee Herschel
Diek, Jotiann J. ci. sci c. ieee vce scansns Windsor Pensions JCC Pin an aon ao eee eooee Laird
Dick, Jacob A. ~—-----~=--------------—--- St. Davis Peters, Jacob H. Langham
Dirks, Peter H. ~.---------------- Nigara on the Lake Plenert, Peter H. Fino) or Swe, GRO le eee Rabbit Lake
Driedger, Jacob N. ......--.e5se0+-09e- Leamington BIGGER VE ae Secs ovis otea te Haaiss clog ae Herschel
*Driedger, N. N. --..--------------------- Leamington *Regier, Tohatuien Seal Pee ee ee a ee Laird
Epp, Abram H, --------------------------- Vineland Rempel, Bernh. D. ...........-eeeeeeeeee Tugaske
Top, GACOD. Jedi s i ewer esas ... Leamington Rempel, David H. ...........ccceeeeeeeseee Hague
Fast, Aronld A. ---------------- ice bie St. Toronto Rempel, Joh. G. ...... Rosthern
Fransen, Nikol ..........--+-+-- ... Vineland ReeMeT UW Cake Sass S~ se ee Swift Current
Harder, Abr. H. ............+..---»-.. Beamsviile Sy PC elt trakisa. a ea amae Kee aoe miners Laird
Janzen, Jacob D. .... ... Wheatley Schellenberg, Jacob .............eeseeeeee Hanley
*Janzen, Jacob H. —----- ‘Waterloo, 164 Erb Str. West Schroeder, Henirich ------------------------ Dundurn
Kroeker. Peter P. ........-- Niagara on the Lake Schroeder, Paul .........-..-+-sseeeeeeeeees Drake
Lepp, Herman P. --~..---------------------- Harrow Thiessen, Isaac, ------------..-------~~------ Brooking
Brekke, PON Die 8a xs pace ee tee ... Guelph *Thiessen, Jacob J. ---- Saskatoon, 433 Third Ave., N.
Wauteld. Co Ks cic oo een estes "Niagara on the Lake Thiessen, Martin ..-........-....+++++5 Fitzmaurice
Penner Jacob J. ..........-. .... Leamington *Toews, David ----------------~-~---~---~---- Rosthern
Peters. A. H. .............cesesseesse+s+. Winona Toews, Benno, ----------------------------- Saskatoon
Roetiner: Jw Fo. hs ose ce aie sg oes ae Sa ee ; Portudwtawan: Meet, Peter ok. 56. ese onde ale earew mes Ratner
Reaper, Wir. (18: © «nso ed ee es costenes Leamington Vogt, John -------_----------~----~----~------ Capasin
Sawatzicy, “Dletr. Jo i iids new snades canletens Vineland *Warkentin, Corn. J. _... Herschel
Shelienberg, W. J. -------- St. Catherines, 71 Vale Ave. Warkentin, Gerhard, ie . Dundurn
Schmidt, Nik. H. ......... _.. Blythewood Warkentin, P. J. A. ---------~--------------- Superb
he CES: SO AOE renee ee Leamington Wiebe, Herman J. ---~---~--.---------------- Madison
Olietnae’ Fone Net sie eee oe ee Vineland Wiens, Gerh. B. ............--s00seseeeees Herschel
Wiens, Isaac He. .8 nse dee se ccc wwessas | AICRDEEE
Witesias :dOlis oda (co Se ee Trossachs
In Saskatchewan Witerten (WEIR 00 oid fia cin cussgienaa ten Dundurn
Andres, Bernh. J. .....-- ee cece eres eres Petaigan Zacharias, Gerh. .............c0cceedeeneeees Clavet
Balzer, Joh. H. ......--- cece cece erences Langham PSOTYAE TAS ahs Peas tioce (stoi shows ced we wa gee aren Waldheim
Bartel, — os below ba tina dinn sls Raa a
Bergen, POI Pe oie cide nee erg See oo umenho “
eceen, Peter, CARA SSL — In Manitoba
z a r :
ene een ee en an ard
We -SahmeGA, “aneceee onan =~ --- SL ILIUED: of Gond.a gap creel cas cea bee nkler
Boldt, Cornel. Ti Na a a Hague Becker, H. J... .cccccccccceccucceuee Marquette
Boschman, C. C. ..... cece eect ee cece eees etaigan Bergen, Abram G. ;
Bueckert, David —-.—___.-----_-_-_--. -_____ Beeow. base tition Winnipegosis
Bueckert, Franz F. ~------------------- Wellesley Park Bie Gecosr eT ee Altona
Derksen. Isaac A. ....... cece eee eee e eee Herbert , Sr Whitewater
‘ BONERS PORE eo oa _.... Winkler.
oe J or Seay ee EEE canoe Braun, Joh. J. Niverville
ck, aco i eee ee jiercelan eos ee es «
Vueck. JORAMI.. ... 1.6 succoetrcos «2-43, ORENEED Bueckert, Re i Fiche ces rcres Plum Coulee
Dyck, Franz P. .........eeesceeeees “Main Centre Bueckert. Joh. P. ---------------- Gretna, R. R. 1—5
Pe SYST 0 aaa ie rea _.. Hague seed Wilh. = ayer iptile piers so inert ah saaaehteee eae Morden
aR l= oe ee ee aa “Swift Current isang Toe SIRE 9, ds. sivternivisin sil eee areata Marquette
SE SUE on vice ic en teuekaewent ot ... Waldheim Enns, Heinr. G. .............. (Reinland) Winkler
Tce TRUE ids vas 5 8c 3k wae ws ca nweerws Wingard *Enns, Joh. H. ---------- Winnipeg 392 Alexander Ave.
Ellias, Gerhard —--------------------- Barness Crossing Enns, Joh. J. --------------------- noon Gruenthal
ona gigh orn aa RE SS SS 2 MI I Springstein
Wea WHOIS, oo ead ennddn cess Me ee Heinrich M. ......... . Lena
Ekiss \GkbaeiOR © 2s = Teddington Ewert, Benjamin ~-~-------~- Winnipeg 286 River Ave.
TI p 8 PAs ae ee RR ie eine eee Teddington PQS SIAVIG Gey kr hies we ie asian teccselnes aes Chortitz
ae. Sabah ls 22 cena Teddington Fviesen, Heinr. H. ...........--..-+. St. Elizabeth
Epp, Isaac ine Se A es Barnes Crossing Friesen, Harry S. ..............+.+.++.+-+. Winkler
WUE WEREROG Doe nae 05/33 aaoes sx oso ae Waldheim Friesen, ROMER ge aos pa Tsien vaca, vans Sees ee eae Glenlea
Bp; Peter 'G. 0 - — 5 - Carrot River Friesen Is. Is. -------------- 864 Downing St. Winnipeg
WEN BUREN a 6 cies occ Seichcy Sansa np seme aes Hanley Froese, Abr. H. ----------------------- ------- Pansy
*Emp, Gerh, G, —---—-=.-—-=..--.....-------- Rosthern Funk, Jacob ......................+.+.... Steinbach
ated Ca Rie Nea oe en en Drake Heinrichs, Joh. ‘Ro. 2. Plum Coulee
Warten: BOM 2 5 —— ot = ae ee Hague Heinrichs, Peter J. ........-.----+++- St. Elizabeth
Wadvan, Geri. Is. =... -.-.2, = Turaske Heinrichs, Peter 2a Lowe Farm
Friesen, Arthur .......... : Laird Heinrichs, Wilh. P. ---------------------- Gruenthal
Friesen, Is. P. —---- 1102 Spadina, Cresent, Saskatoon Hoeppner. Jacob N. ate ey er . Altona
EN ae eee ie CR Pr wee Leroy Hooge, Johann J. ...........--..:540. Plum Coulee
Friesen, JOH. Re. ioc. ce ccs eee eee ne caticees Laird Isaak, Abram J. ........--e es eeee eens Oak River
Friesen, Peter B. .............00-05-- Four Corner Janzen, Corn. C. ------------------------ Winnipegosis
Friesen, Richard C. ...............- Carrot River Janzen, SRUOLIERBINB SEG | eoxsalicls Soars 4 areth S Tein ... Morden
MA PSNINB Oy << ¥s oy sco ko ee oleae Northvale Janzen, Heinrich H. ---------------------- McCreary
Satheeett Suan 2.2 Drake- Kehler, Peter Po... 26. e.ce cs se eiea neg Altona
Heinrichs. Jacob ...............-2-++--++-$.+ Drake Klassen, David .................+++.+ »,,.. Culross
DAMME JOM CES 55 ae vay av Fis es f5nyide set sek Hague Klassen. D. D. .......-.-.....00 0220s .. Homéwood
Sanger. Jo oJ. « cicccccccccaceevccccéevsecss CHenhush ~Klassen, D.-BD. 2.0.5. sss se ee ee ect ‘.... Steinbach
Klassen, Weinrich .................. “Rabbit Tale Klassen, Jacob H. ..-------------- (Blumenort) ; Gretna
Bisamen, Ho To 222.0840... Larid Klassen, Jacob ---------------- -- (Blumenort) Gretna
Klaassen, Jacob —-_-----------__ ~ Eeird ‘Klassen: Jacob J. ook sven csseeses Niverville
‘Klassen. Peter J: .............. i *.. Superh-= = Klassen .Teob K. ----- Fee See Lowe® Farm
WO POE et iis eoirai wer rate adswe Seem “Aberdeen Krahn, Corn. B. ........ Reinland, P. "iO: Winkler
THE MENNONITE YEARBOOK, 1945 41
GE, Sa rere am et re) OS od eee er ts Seige ts ley
WEIN onan eee cee Altona Froese, Peter .............2.....5- Ry
“eeu Denis : Rea SS aE ee North Kildonan *Harder, (Corn. D.) Wo cn occa cee ee 4
EBCWER; “JaCOD © onnccchcc cs va as0% bs cece seeels Arden *Heidebrecht, D. A. ~----------------_--__---. ory
Loewen, Jacob J. ...... 2. cece ee ee ee ee eee Gretna Heidebrecht, PC OERS, aaa wench a aed sa kat ante To =
Loewen, Peter ...........-+-++5 BAe etre Steinbach Janzen, Daniel rata eins AvoUpia la vo te earache ate eet .. Gem
TiGee ey IO TD. ads coo ice'ee dsiek asaa divs Rosenfeld © *Janzen, David P. ______-____-____________ Springridge
Lohrenz, Gerhard, _ = .. Springstein Janzen, Franz ................2.20++000> auxha
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Toews, Jacob 3 Sees he hen oe ee COR Glenlea DUPER Sein sy VFEa. 5 sicca pois ble Wyss CRBS ee ene Coghlan
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Epp, Abram C. ----------------_-_ -__-...---- TORS) "DOMES, FOI GG os caswsncsias anice Abbotsford
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Friesen, Peter A.
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PACIFIC DISTRICT
Jan. 1, 1943 te Jan. 1, 1944
TTT
Sunday Foreign Home
Church and Minister Membership School Expenditures Missions Missions Relief
Alberta Community, Portland, Oregon 60 7 $ 2321.85 $ 109.85 $ 51.50 $ 132.75
Emmanuel, Pratum, Oregon, W. A. Regier 182 220 4046.47 708.63 442.72 305.31
Aberdeen, Idaho a) 384 300 12096.47 2646.89 875.48 815.75
Colfax, Washington, Harley King 114 175 6960.00 982.87 504.89 1653.54
Monroe, Washington, M. M. Lehmann 72 120 4019.06 408.13 204.07 903.00
Newport, Washington, P. D. Unruh 86 88 2073.06 361.44 258.86 153.20
Reedley, California, P. K. Regier 536 345 14419.51 785.99 547.55 1130.07
Paso Robles, First, Orlo Kaufman 67 65 1941.00 251.00 227.00 78.00
Paso Robles, Second, F. F. Jantzen 116 130 3444.80 1225.13 362.34 319.71
Shafter, California, John Bartel 98 58 5994.88 70.01 242.69
Grace, Albany, Oregon, P. A. Kliewer 110 116 3127.39 230.46 450.63
Grace, Dallas, Oregon, Homer Leisy 245 197 5083.45 391.46 175.62 289.00
Immanuel, Los Angeles, California 234 477 13591.12 1413.71 1923.83 514.25
Menno, Lind, Washington, E. J. Miller 130 115 16838.56 2635.02 1000.26 3006.78
Upland, California, Earl Salzman 343 160 8470.11 _ 132.95 681.70 522.38
Winton, California, J. P. Glanzer 49 60 1148.35 138.65 26.10 196.50
Totals: 2826 2701 $105576.08 $13092.19 $7975.24 $10020.24
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PACIFIC DISTRICT (Continued)
Pacific
District Other Current
C...P: S. Conference Causes Expenses
Alberta Community, Portland, Oregon $ 157.00 $ 75.00 $ 107.84 $ 1293.77
Emmanuel, Pratum, Oregon, W. A. Regier 179.72 410.09 2100.00
Aberdeen, Idaho : 1591.45 402.19 2494.92 3289.93
Colfax, Washington, Harley King 438.75 144.42 285.53 2950.00
Monroe, Washington, M. M. Lehmann 456.16 145.49 329.55 1563.83
Newport, Washington, P. D. Unruh 197.21 147.56 20.00 907.79
Reedley, California, P. K. Regier 3103.37 378.88 605.18 7868.47
Paso Robles, First, Orlo Kaufman 49.00 56.00 51.00 1229.00
Paso Robles, Second, F. F. Jantzen 166.24 178.21 502.41 690.76
Shafter, California, John Bartel 49:30 31.36 123.45 1696.19
Grace, Albany, Oregon, P. A. Kliewer 33.03 1670.58
Grace, Dallas, Oregon, Homer Leisy 41.00 223.77 579.05 2750.00
Immanuel, Los Angeles, California 1455.00 159.59 6696.81
Menno, Lind, Washington, E. J. Miller 3758.41 837.26 2829.60 2771.19
Upland, California, Earl Salzman 575.79 258.23 181.42 5517.64
Winton, California, J. P. Glanzer 74.00 66.16 245.00 400.00
Totals: $12292.40 $3104.12 $8798.07 $43395.96
Statistician: Marvin Linscheid, Aberdeen, Idaho
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NORTHERN DISTRICT
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Membership and Enrollment
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Christian Endeavor
Mission Societies
Vacation Bible School
Sunday School
Address, Name of Church, Pastor, and Sunday School Superintendent 5
Mountain Lake, Minn., Bethel Menn., Erland Waltner, P. J. Voth 547 455 239 184 15
Butterfield, Minn., Mennonite, Bernhard J. Nickel, Albert Linscheid 80 100 81 21 65
Delft, Minn., Immanuel, Vacancy, P. R. Friesen 104 135 135 20
Mountain Lake, Minn., First Menn., I. J. Dick, Jacob M. Harder 418 308 103 57
Butterfield, Minn., First Menn., Victor Sawatzky, R. J. Toews 98 100 50 27 39
Warroad, Minn., Woodland Menn., Arthur Ortmann, D. S. Heppner 52 125 52 19 21
West Brook, Minn, New Home, H. H. Rupp 42
Mountain Lake, Minn., Bergfelder, August Ewert, No Report
Bloomfield, Mont., Bethlehem, Geo. C. Dick, Abe Schultz 140 182 140 40 38
Lustre, Mont., Bethel, Elmer J. Dick, Frank Quiring 50 69 50 15 43
Wolf Point, Mont., Bethel, Albert Ewert, No Report
Henderson, Neb., Bethesda, A. W. Friesen, Elmer Friesen 842 891 330 85 5
Madrid, Neb., First Menn., Vacancy, P. A. Regier 30 59 60 23
Wisner, Neb., Salem Menn., Vacancy, Francis Amstutz 18 26 8
Alsen, N. D., Swiss Menn., W. J. Flickinger, Henry Schmiess 140 79 140 25 38
Arena, N. D. Zion Menn., No Report
Langdon, N. D., Bethel, Paul Dahlenburg, No Report
Munich, N. D. Salem Menn., Hellmuth Ortmann, Willard I. Schultz 100 183 34
Avon, S. D., Friedensberg, Eduard Duerksen, Henry Becker 100 122 100 a &b
Bridgewater, S. D., New Hutterthal, Paul J. Tschetter, No Report
Doland, S. D., Emmanuel, Jacob A. Friesen, Jacob S. . Stahl 88 98 45
Freeman, S. D., Bethany, L. H. Linscheid, J. M. Hofer 213 +4149 22 49 .
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Freeman, S. D., Salem Menn., Willard K. Claassen, Ray Unruh 502 585 502 90 61
Freeman, S. D., Salem Zion, J. J. Regier, Paul Schrag 323 323 213 35 33
Freeman, S. D., Hutterthal Menn., Jacob B. Hofer, Paul E. Hofer 180 250 180 63 68
Freeman, S. D., Hutterdorf Menn., Peter J. Stahl, Mike J. Stahl 50 75 50
Hitchcock, S. D. Hutterthal, Paul J. R. Hofer, Matt. J. Hofer ™H 120
Huron, S. D., Fairfield Bethel, Frank S. Harder, Sam K. Wipf 40 90 75 20
Marion, S. D., Bethesda, Alfred P. Waltner, Bernhard Ewert 220 230 34
Marion, S. D., Bethel, Jacob A. Tieszen, No Report
Total 4452 4754 2500 735 745
NORTHERN DISTRICT (Continued)
Contributions for the year ending January 1, 1944 Men in
For General Conference Causes Service
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Mountain Lake $6224.50 225.00 3797.21 1058.96 1457.63 3772.00 110.00 619.45 925.86 18200.6117 8 14
Butterfield 2407.57 132419 77.20 68.50 381.35 21.56 1282.20 4370.57 3 2
Delft 2605.34 65.52 1227.11 141.04 ° 188.03 298.50 35.25 35.00 330.29 4926.08 4 3
Mountain Lake 1603.75 244.28 1983.24 251.77 1270.00 2236.43 179.79 574.64 8343.99 520 3
Butterfield 1358.99 69.64 1191.66 1514.05 160.86 91.70 221.09 8.86 4616.87 3 1
Warroad 311.94 52.43 451.90 45.51 120.83 982.61 2
West Brook 255.00 80.00 5.00 55.00 8.00 403.00 1
Mountain Lake :
Bloomfield 4335.00 19.31 3401.44 1466.69 602.88 451.00 27.28 215.86 1881.94 1240140 3 4 3
Lustre 71.00 110.62 792.84 427.32 30.58 235.15 138.83 138.83 446.80 2079.1412 2 2
Wolf Point
Henderson 6419.65 53.21 4876.15 2748.22 2906.29 5814.84 1164.26 23929.41 11 15 26
Madrid 815.11 222.69 365.40 79.95 115.17 68.36 1666.68 1
Wisner 50.66 45.00 237.61 119.00 238.37 112.50 60.00 858.14 1
Alsen 1882.72 46.83 399.44 529.16 138.67 19.77 103.15 3119.74 9 2
Arena
Langdon
Munich 847.89 30.00 286.79 354.66 731.64 589.16 246.49 3103.66 8 3
Avon 896.00 50.00 308.00 125.00 77.00 319.00 25.00 176.00 136.00 3324.00 3 4
Bridgewater
Doland 829.64 321.51 449.49 133.14 38.60 145.87 113.37 27.00 2058.32 3 2
Freeman 2680.14 250.22 179.66 61.57 345.42 106.13 699.49 33.64 4356.2715 3 1
Freeman 3090.87 125.00 996.26 996.26 570.88 3404.87 100.00 9174.00 2514.52 20972.66 8 712
| Freeman 4624.96 165.40 1397.29 869.70 1156.36 2676.88 18.00 3031.47 13940.06 11 8 5
Freeman 3341.00 1500.00 1500.00 500.00 1080.00 2100.00 10021.00 1 4
Freeman 500.00 250.00 250.00 200.00 250.00 1450.00 9 2
Hitchcock 232.34 232.34 275.21 739.89 132
, Huron 616.05 362.51 147.55 192.15 1318.26 1
Marion 1488.67 103.71 1795.75 504.00 926.80 1515.39 1990.64 110.74 8435.73 41
} Marion
| Total 47256.45 1950.15 26312.94 13630.72 11065.94 23999.11 1192.18 20870.79 8371.98155318.00127 92 76
| STATISTICAL REPORT OF THE NORTHERN DISTRICT CONFERENCE.
| JANUARY 1, 1944
Statistician: Adolph Preheim, Hurley, South Dakota
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Alexanderwohl, Phil. A. Wedel, Goessel, Kansas
Arlington, George W. Kopper, Arlington, Kansas
Bergtal, J. B. Schmidt, Pawnee Rock, Kansas
Bergtal, Henry Hege, Corn, Oklahoma
Bethany, E. J. Neuenschwander, McPherson, Kansas
Bethel College, Lester Hostetler, North Newton, Kansas
Bethel, Hydro, Oklahoma
Bethel, Perryton, Jacob E. Wiebe, Waka, Texas
Brudertal, Arnold Funk, Hillsboro, Kansas
Buhler, Henry Fransen, Buhler, Kansas
Burrton, Arnold Epp, Burrton, Kansas
Deer Creek, Herbert Miller, Deer Creek, Oklahoma
Ebenezer, (H. H. Wedel) Gotebo, Oklahoma
Ebenfeld, Victor Graber, Plains, Kansas
Eden, Solomon Moutett, Inola, Oklahoma
Eden, Walter Gering, Moundridge, Kansas
Einsiedel, A. S. Bechtel, Hanston, Kansas
Emmanuel, Garman H. Wedel, Moundridge, Kansas:
Emmaus, J. C. Kaufman, Whitewater, Kansas
First Mennonite, W. H. Dyck, Beatrice, Nebraska
First Mennonite, Henry W. Goossen, Burns, Kansas
First Christian, P. P. Wedel, Moundridge, Kansas
First Garden, A. J. Dirks, Halstead, Kansas
First Geary, H. N. Harder, Geary, Oklahoma
First Halstead, D. C. Wedel, Halstead, Kansas
First Hutchinson, C. H. Dirks, Hutchinson, Kansas ;
First, Newton, J. E. Entz, Newton, Kansas
First, Prety Prairie, P. P. Tschetter, Pretty
Prairie, Kansas
First, Random, John W. Boehr, Ransom, Kansas
Friedensfeld, (P. M. Franz), Turpin, Oklahoma
Friedenstal, W. H. Regier, Durham, Kansas
Gnadenberg, J. J. Voth, North Newton, Kansas
Goessel, P. P. Buller, Newton, Kansas
Grace, Ben Rahn, Enid, Oklahoma
Gruenfeld, Rudolph Schmidt, Fort Cobb, Oklahoma
Hebron, T. A. Van der Smissen, Buhler, Kansas
Herald, C. B. Friesen, Bessie, Oklahoma
Hillsboro, H. T. Unruh, Hillsboro, Kansas
Huffnungsau, A. J. Dyck, Inman, Kansas
Members
911
440
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166
335
390
Hoffnungsau, Jacob Janzen, Cuauahtemoc, Chih Mexico *25
Hopefield, Gustav Frey, Moundridge, Kansas
Inman, J. E. Kaufman, Inman, Kansas
Johannestal, J. M. Regier, Hillsboro, Kansas
Kidron, F. W. Koehn, Cordell, Oklahoma
Lehigh, B. H. Janzen, Lehigh, Kansas
Lorraine Ave., P. E. Frantz, Wichita, Kansas
Meadow Mennonite, (H. D. Goossen), Colby, Kansas
Medford, A. G. Schmidt, Medford, Oklahoma
New Friedensburg, (D. J. Tanner), Vona, Colorado
New Hopedale, H. U. Schmidt, Meno, Oklahoma
Pleasant Valley, Victor Graber, Plains, Kansas
Saron, H. P. Fast, Orienta, Oklahoma
Second Mennonite, Elbert Koontz, Beatrice, Nebraska
Sichar, Menno Kliewer, Cordell, Oklahoma
Swiss, T. E. Roth, Whitewater, Kansas
Tabor, P. H. Richert, Newton, Kansas
Walton, Ronald Von Riesen, Walton, Kansas
West Zion, W. F. Unruh, Moundridge, Kansas
Zion, Elbing, H. J. Dyck, Elbing, Kansas
Zinn Kineman. J. H. Enp. Kingman. Kansas
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Alexanderwhol, Edward Reimer
Arlington, Alfred Miller
Bergtal, *Max Smith
Bergtal, G. W. Janzen
Bethany, M. S. Kaufman
Bethel College, Adolph Friesen
Bethel, John A. Entz .
Bethel, Herman Wiebe
Brudertal, Edward H. Unruh
Buhler, Ben C. Kim
Burrton, John V. Regier
Deer Creek, Elmer J. Lichti
Ebenezer
Ebenfeld, A. E. Unruh
Eden, Bill Unrau
Eden, Walter Goering
Einsiedel, Marvin Miller
Emmanuel, Edwin Jantz
Emmaus, F. W. Busenitz
First Mennonite, Richard C. Wiebe
First Mennonite
First Christian, Richard F. Graber
First Garden, *Ruben Ewy
First Geary, *E. J. Lehman
First Halstead, Harry Dester
First Hutchinson, Marvin Kroeker
First, Newton, Menno Schrag
First, Pretty Prairie, Amos J.
Flickinger
First, Ransom *R. L. Sargent
Friedensfeld, *P. M. Franz
Friedenstal, Arnold Jantz
Gnadenberg, Reinhold F. Schmidt
Goessel, Roland Dirksen
Grace, Miss Elda Ewert
Gruenfeld, John Nightingale
Hebron, Dr. A. M. Lohrentz
Herald, Otto Pankratz
Hillsboro, Alvin E. Wiens
Huffnungsau, Irvin R. Schmidt
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Hopefield, *Peter C. Stucky
Inman, Edward Wiens
Johanestal, Walter Gaede
Kidron, F. W. Koehn
Lehigh, F. G. Unruh
Lorraine Avenue, Anton S. Richert
Meadow Mennonite, Alvin L. Goossen
Medford, Bernhard Reimer ;
New Friedensburg, D. J. Tanner
New Hopedale, Alvin I. Ratzlaff
Pleasant Valley, Harold Lambert
Saron, Ernest Voth
Second Mennonite, Arnold Reimer
Sichar, Menns G. Schmidt
Swiss, *Vernon Roth
Zion, Kingdom, Jacob L. Goering
Walton, P. H. Siemens
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The Hundred Per Cent Church
Subscription Plan
What Is It?
The 100 Per Cent Church Subscription Plan is a means of providing either
The Mennonite or the Bundesbote, or both, for every home on the church-roll. It is
a plan by which either or both of these papers can be had at a reduction of 50 cents
from the regular renewal price. It is a plan which forty churches of our conference
had already adopted and put into operation by January 26, 1945. A number of others
had adopted the plan, but had not put it into operation by that date.
How Can This Plan Be Put In Operation?
Any church affiliated with the General Conference can enjoy the benefits of
this plan by complying with the following conditions:
1. If the church agrees to adopt this plan and to provide one of these papers
for each family on the church roll.
2. If the church will make itself responsible for the payment of these subscrip-
tions each year as long as the plan is in operation.
Advantages Resulting from the Adoption of This Plan?
1. It means a saving of 50 cents on each renewal every year.
2. It places a conference paper into many Mennonite homes which otherwise
might not have one.
3. It keeps the church members informed on all activities carried on by the
General and the District Conferences. Besides, the church paper brings many
articles of value on various subjects, and news items on what is going on in
Mennonite circles generally.
4. It stimulates interest in all conference activities and encourages support of
these activities through prayer and more liberal giving.
When Is the Best Time to Put This Plan Into Operation?
This plan can be put in operation at any time, but the most convenient time
is at the beginning of the year. In that way the subscriptions will always ex-
pire at the end of the year.
Has Your Church Adopted This Plan?
If not, why not begin to work on it ~ow and be ready to put the plan in opera-
tion beginning with the year 1946?
How May Additional Information Regarding this Plan be Obtained?
You can obtain further information by referring to the Mennonite of Novem-
ber 23, 1943; also by writing the
MENNONITE PUBL. OFFICE, NEWTON, KANSAS.
BOOKS
By Mennonite Authors and Editors
Including
Hymn Books and Books on Mennonite Doctrine, History and Missions
Mennonite Hymnary. Edited by Walter H. Hohmann and Lester Hostetler.
Published by the Board of Publication of the Mennonite General Conference
of N. A. First edition published in 1940. To date (January, 1945) over 20,000
copies sold. Strong blue binding. 618 Hymns and 90 Responsive Readings.
Price, single copies, prepaid
Reduced price to churches. Write for information.
Gesangbuch. Edited by Canadian Gesangbuchkommission. Published by the
Mennonite General Conference of N. A. 550 Hymns. Cloth binding.
Price, porto extra, £
Other bindings in half and full leather available. Write for information.
History of the Mennonite General Conference (two volumes). By H. ie
Krehbiel. Cloth binding. Price, vol. one $1.00. Vol. two $2.00
War, Peace, Amity. By H. P. Krehbiel. Cloth binding. Price
The Story of the Mennonites. By Dr. C. Henry Smith.
Cloth binding. 823 pages. Price
The Coming of the Russian Mennonites. By Dr. C. Henry Smith. Period from
1874 to 1884. Cloth binding. 296 pages. -.............22....222..222::-ceeecceeeteeeeeeeeeet $1.50
Mennonites in Europe. By John Horsch. Cloth. 425 pages
Who’s Who Among the Mennonites. Dr. A. Warkentin, Editor. Dr. Melvin
Gingerich, Assist. Editor. 1000 biographical sketches. 428 pages.
Cloth binding. Price.
An Outline of Mennonite History. By J. John Friesen. Especially adapted for
class study. Paper Binding. 114 pages
Sketches from Church History for Mennonite Schools. By C. H. Wedel. Stiff
paper binding. 142 pages.
Mennonites in the (first) World War, or Nonresistance Under Test. By J. S.
Hartzler. Cloth binding. 246 pages. Price
War, Peace and Nonresistance. By Guy F. Herschberger.
Cloth binding. 415 pages. Price
Twenty-Five Years With God In India. Written by the India missionaries of
the General Conference. Cloth binding. 250: pages
With Christ on the Edge of the Jungles. By S. T. Moyer.
Cloth binding. 158 pages. Price
The above prices apply to the United States. Canada 10% extra.
Send Orders and Remittances to the MENNONITE BOOK CONCERN,
BERNE, IND., or the MENNONITE PUBLICATION OFFICE, NEWTON, KS.
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